Jeremiah 6:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision 3 For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Arise, let us go by night and destroy her palaces! American Standard Version (1901) Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces. Common English Bible Get ready, let’s attack by night and destroy her fortresses!” Catholic Public Domain Version 'Rise up, and let us ascend in the night, and let us destroy her houses.' " Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses. |
In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying:
0 According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice.
O Lord, have mercy on us: for we have waited for thee: be thou our arm in the morning, and our salvation in the time of trouble.
If that nation against which I have spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought to do to them.
1 And concerning the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high: and a cord of twelve cubits compassed it about: but the thickness thereof was four fingers, and it was hollow within.
5 But Nabuzardan the general carried away captives some of the poor people, and of the rest of the common sort who remained in the city, and of the fugitives that were fled over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.
The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God.
3 Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.
And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.
And I said: I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die: and that which is cut off, let it be cut off: and let the rest devour every one the flesh of his neighbour.