For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.
Jeremiah 5:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision 0 Scale down the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And though they say, As the Lord lives, surely they swear falsely. American Standard Version (1901) And though they say, As Jehovah liveth; surely they swear falsely. Common English Bible Even when making a pledge—“As the LORD lives”— they swear falsely. Catholic Public Domain Version For even though they say, 'As the Lord lives,' in this, too, they swear falsely." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely. |
For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.
0 And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace: and behold the sword reacheth even to the soul?
Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them whom I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do pluck up, and all this land.
7 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
0 For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they have not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts they are gone away and departed.
2 Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he shall come that shall teach you justice.
They will not set their thoughts to return to their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
7 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart, but reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.
3 And their strength shall become a booty, and their houses as a desert: and they shall build houses, and shall not dwell in them: and they shall plant vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.
9 Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith.
4 But continue thou in those things which thou hast learned, and which have been committed to thee: knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters, in all things pleasing, not gainsaying: