Zechariah 5:4

New International Version

The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’ ”

Cross References

Job 18:15

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.

Job 20:26

total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

Job 8:15

They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.

Job 8:22

Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”

Proverbs 3:33

The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

Jeremiah 2:26

“As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the people of Israel are disgraced— they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets.

Hosea 4:2

There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 4:3

Because of this the land dries up, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea are swept away.

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord, “who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted.”

Zechariah 5:3

And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.

Zechariah 8:17

do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord.

Malachi 3:5

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.

Deuteronomy 28:16

You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

Deuteronomy 7:26

Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

Joshua 9:20

This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that God’s wrath will not fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them.”