Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
Jeremiah 15:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) “Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your [nation's] substance and your treasures will I give as spoil, without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your territory. American Standard Version (1901) Thy substance and thy treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. Common English Bible Your wealth and belongings I will deliver as plunder, without a fee, because of all your sins throughout your territory. Catholic Public Domain Version Your riches and your treasures I will give over to be freely despoiled, because of all your sins, even throughout all your borders. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thy riches and thy treasures I will give unto spoil for nothing, because of all thy sins, even in all thy borders. |
Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.
Now therefore what have I here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail, says the Lord, and continually all the day my name is despised.
I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.
on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your sin throughout all your territory.
Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them, and seize them, and carry them to Babylon.
Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’
Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.”