Jeremiah 23:10 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁰ For the land is filled with adulterers; for the land mourns because of a curse. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is 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."

Jeremiah 23:10 Cross References

Ezra 10:18

And among the sons of the priests who had taken foreign women were found of the sons of Yĕ

Psalm 107:34

A land of fruit becomes a salty desert, For the evil of those who dwell in it.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be left.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw crookedness with cords of falsehood, and sin as with wagon ropes,

Jeremiah 12:11

“They have laid it waste – a waste, it mourns to Me. All the land is laid waste, because no one takes it to heart.

Jeremiah 14:2

“Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 6:13

“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, they are all greedy for gain. And from the prophet even to the priest, all act falsely.

Jeremiah 7:9

stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, and swearing falsely, and burning incense to Baʽ

Jeremiah 9:10

“I shall take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they have been burned up, without any passing over, nor has the voice of cattle been heard. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled, they have gone.

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man, that he understands this? And to whom has the mouth of יהוה  spoken, that he declares it? Why has the land perished, has it been burned up like a wilderness, with none passing through?

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men, and I would leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Hosea 7:4

“All of them are adulterers, as an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, until it is leavened.

Joel 1:10

The field is ravaged, the ground has mourned, for the grain is ruined, the new wine has dried up, the oil fails.

Leviticus 5:1

‘And when a being sins in that he has heard the voice of swearing, and is a witness, or has seen, or has known, but does not reveal it, he shall bear his crookedness.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men. Her priests have profaned the set-apart place, they have done violence to the Torah.

Malachi 3:5

“And I shall draw near to you for right-ruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and against them that swear to falsehood, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not fear Me,” said יהוה  of hosts.

1 Timothy 1:10

for those who whore, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else that is contrary to sound teaching,

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be respected by all, and the bed be undefiled. But Elohim shall judge those who whore, and adulterers.

James 4:4

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Elohim?Whoever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim.