And though this house be so high, yet shall every one that passeth by be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Jeremiah 22:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then they will answer, Because [the people] forsook the covenant or solemn pledge with the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them. American Standard Version (1901) Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. Common English Bible And the answer will be, “Because they abandoned the covenant with the LORD their God and worshipped and served other gods.” Catholic Public Domain Version And they will answer: 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord their God, and they adored strange gods and served them.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and have adored strange gods and served them. |
And though this house be so high, yet shall every one that passeth by be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched.
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
and say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that heareth not the words of this covenant,
Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgements in thee in anger and in fury, and in furious rebukes: I the LORD have spoken it:
even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?