Of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women were found Ma-aseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren.
Jeremiah 23:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the land is full of adulterers (forsakers of God, Israel's true Husband). Because of the curse [of God upon it] the land mourns, the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. They [both false prophets and people] rush into wickedness; and their course is evil, their might is not right. American Standard Version (1901) For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right; Common English Bible Because the country teems with adulterers, because of them, yes, because their might isn’t right and their way is evil, the land dries up, and the grazing areas in the wilderness wither. Catholic Public Domain Version For the earth is full of adulterers! And the earth has mourned before the face of evil talk. The plains of the desert have dried up, and their course has become hazardous, and their firmness has become uneven." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
Of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women were found Ma-aseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren.
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,
They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.
“Judah mourns and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
“For from the least to the greatest of them, every one is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, every one deals falsely.
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,
“Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.
Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven, whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
The fields are laid waste, the ground mourns; because the grain is destroyed, the wine fails, the oil languishes.
“If any one sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his inquity.
Her prophets are wanton, faithless men; her priests profane what is sacred, they do violence to the law.
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
immoral persons, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.
Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.