Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Ezekiel 14:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition That I may lay hold of the house of Israel in the thoughts of their own mind and heart, because they are all estranged from Me through their idols. American Standard Version (1901) that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. Common English Bible So I’ll seize the hearts of the house of Israel, whose idols have made them all strangers to me. Catholic Public Domain Version so that the house of Israel may be seized within their own heart, by which they have withdrawn from me to all their idols. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols. |
Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
“I the Lord search the mind and try the heart, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars, and destroy their pillars.
In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, indeed it cannot;
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;
Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.