plummet

noun

«plummet» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

The prophets use it as a picture of God's measure of justice. It can build with righteousness or show a house is crooked and doomed to fall.

Interpretation. Tradition reads it as God testing people and cities against a true standard, and judging them when they fail.

A weight on a string used to check that a wall is straight. tree →

And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. (Prophets ISA.28.17, JPS 1917) tree →
But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein; and He shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. (Prophets ISA.34.11, JPS 1917) tree →
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. (Prophets 2KI.21.13, JPS 1917) tree →

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