Jeremiah 5:9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision 7 And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord; and shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this? American Standard Version (1901) Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Common English Bible The LORD declares: Shouldn’t I confront these acts? Shouldn’t I take revenge on such a nation? Catholic Public Domain Version Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? And shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation such as this? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? And shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation? |
THE word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda and Jerusalem.
4 And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.
0 Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and their course is become evil, and their strength unlike.
9 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all days : and that it may be well with them, and with their children after them.
0 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver Pharao Ephree king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life: as I delivered Sedecias king of Juda into the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon his enemy, and that sought his life.
8 Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the midst of her.
9 Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.
4 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.
6 And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they be consumed.
7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:
Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
1 And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth.
The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.
0 Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you, and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.
0 I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
0 For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.