Epistle of Jeremy 1_1:54 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

They cannot judge their own cause or deliver one who is wronged, for they have no power; they are like crows between heaven and earth.

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Good News Translation (US Version)

They can't make decisions about their own affairs or give justice to someone who has been wronged; they can do absolutely nothing. They are as useless as crows flying around in the air.

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

They can't make their own decisions or free a person who has been wronged. They are powerless

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

They cannot judge their own cause or deliver one who is wronged, for they have no power;

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