Jeremiah 23:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ 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 has been evil, and their might is not right.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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)

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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.

Jeremiah 23:10 Cross References

Ezra 10:18

There were found of the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women, of the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth dwindled, and few people are left.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood, who drag sin along as with cart ropes,

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no one lays it to heart.

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they lie in gloom on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Jeremiah 6:13

For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 7:9

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known

Jeremiah 9:10

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 animals have fled and are gone.

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, so that they may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

Jeremiah 9:2

O that I had in the desert a traveler’s lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker does not need to stir the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Joel 1:10

The fields are devastated, the ground mourns, for the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil fails.

Leviticus 5:1

“When any of you sin in that you have heard a public adjuration to testify and, although able to testify as one who has seen or learned of the matter, do not speak up, you are subject to punishment.

Zephaniah 3:4

Its prophets are reckless, faithless persons; its priests have profaned what is sacred; they have done violence to the law.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

1 Timothy 1:10

the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.