“Because I called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one inclined,
Jeremiah 9:6 - The Scriptures 2009 “You live in the midst of deceit; through deceit they have refused to know Me,” declares יהוה. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your habitation is in the midst of deceit [oppression upon oppression and deceit upon deceit]; through deceit they refuse to know and understand Me, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible You live in a world of deceit, and in their deceit they refuse to know me, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version Your habitation is in the midst of deceit. In their deceitfulness, they have refused to know me, says the Lord." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: Through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord. |
“Because I called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one inclined,
“And I shall turn My hand against you, and shall refine your dross as with lye, and shall remove all your alloy.
An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master’s crib – Yisra’ĕl does not know, My people have not understood.”
When יהוה has washed away the filth of the daughters of Tsiyon, and rinsed away the blood of Yerushalayim from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,
“They have turned back to the crookednesses of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other mighty ones to serve them. The house of Yisra’ĕl and the house of Yehuḏah have broken My covenant I made with their fathers.”
But I was like a gentle lamb brought to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had plotted against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.”
This evil people, who refuse to hear My Words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and walk after other mighty ones to serve them and to bow themselves to them, is like this girdle which is completely useless.
Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Yirmeyahu, for the Torah shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words.”
For I heard many mocking, “Fear on every side!” “Expose,” they say, “yes, let us expose him!” All my friends watched for my stumbling, saying, “He might be lured away, so that we prevail against him, and take our revenge on him.”
As a cage is filled with birds, so their houses are filled with deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.
“Why then has this people, Yerushalayim, turned away in a continual backsliding? They are strengthened in deceit, they refuse to turn back.
“How could I give you up, Ephrayim? How could I hand you over, Yisra’ĕl? How could I make you like Aḏmah? How could I set you like Tseḇoyim? My heart turns within Me, all My compassion is kindled.
“My people have perished for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being priest for Me. Since you have forgotten the Torah of your Elohim, I also forget your children.
“And I shall bring the third into fire, and refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My Name, and I shall answer them. I shall say, ‘This is My people,’ while they say, ‘יהוה is my Elohim.’ ”
And even as they did not think it worthwhile to possess the knowledge of Elohim, Elohim gave them over to a worthless mind, to do what is improper,
Wake up to soberness, righteously, and do not sin, for some do not have the knowledge of Elohim. I speak this to your shame.
And the sons of Ěli were sons of Beliya‛al – they did not know יהוה.