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Jeremiah 23:10

New American Bible - revised edition

The land is filled with adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, the pastures of the wilderness are withered. Theirs is an evil course, theirs is unjust power.

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Among the priests, the following were found to have taken foreign women for wives: Of the descendants of Jeshua, son of Jozadak, and his kinsmen: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

Fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its people.

Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants pay for their guilt; Therefore they who dwell on earth have dwindled, and only a few are left.

Ah! Those who tug at guilt with cords of perversity, and at sin as if with cart ropes!

They have made it a mournful waste, desolate before me, Desolate, the whole land, because no one takes it to heart.

Judah mourns, her gates are lifeless; They are bowed to the ground, and the outcry of Jerusalem goes up.

Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain; prophet and priest, all practice fraud.

Do you think you can steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, sacrifice to Baal, follow other gods that you do not know,

I will turn Jerusalem into a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; The cities of Judah I will make a waste, where no one dwells.

The Lord said: Because they have abandoned my law, which I set before them, and did not listen to me or follow it,

They ready their tongues like a drawn bow; with lying, and not with truth, they are powerful in the land. They go from evil to evil, and me they do not know—oracle of the Lord.

They are all adulterers, like a blazing oven, Which the baker quits stoking, after the dough’s kneading until its rising.

The field is devastated; the farmland mourns, Because the grain is devastated, the wine has dried up, the oil has failed.

If a person, either having seen or come to know something, does wrong by refusing as a witness under oath to give information, that individual shall bear the penalty;

Its prophets are reckless, treacherous people; Its priests profane what is holy, and do violence to the law.

I will draw near to you for judgment, and I will be swift to bear witness Against sorcerers, adulterers, and perjurers, those who deprive a laborer of wages, Oppress a widow or an orphan, or turn aside a resident alien, without fearing me, says the Lord of hosts.

the unchaste, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is opposed to sound teaching,

Let marriage be honored among all and the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the immoral and adulterers.

Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.




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