And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
Jeremiah 3:13 - Revised Standard Version Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the Lord your God and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, says the Lord. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Only know, understand, and acknowledge your iniquity and guilt–that you have rebelled and transgressed against the Lord your God and have scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible Only acknowledge your wrongdoing: how you have rebelled against the LORD your God, and given yourself to strangers under every lush tree and haven’t obeyed me, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version So then, truly acknowledge your iniquity, that you have betrayed the Lord your God, and that you have spread your ways to strangers, under every leafy tree, and that you have not listened to my voice, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God: and thou hast scattered thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and hast not heard my voice, saith the Lord. |
And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; who slay your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Thus says the Lord concerning this people: “They have loved to wander thus, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not accept them now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”
We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against thee.
“For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds; and you said, ‘I will not serve.’ Yea, upon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down as a harlot.
Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.’
Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”
The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the harlot?
But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.
yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by.
I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress they seek me, saying,
You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree;