He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, ‘Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.’
Genesis 6:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The earth was depraved and putrid in God's sight, and the land was filled with violence (desecration, infringement, outrage, assault, and lust for power). American Standard Version (1901) And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. Common English Bible In God’s sight, the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet the earth was corrupted before the eyes of God, and it was filled with iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity. |
He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord. That is why it is said, ‘Like Nimrod, a powerful hunter in the sight of the Lord.’
(Now the men of Sodom were evil, sinning immensely against the Lord.)
Then the Lord said to Noah, ‘Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before me, and you tore your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.
The Lord spoke to Moses: ‘Go down at once! For your people you brought up from the land of Egypt have acted corruptly.
Violence will never again be heard of in your land; devastation and destruction will be gone from your borders. You will call your walls Salvation and your city gates Praise.
As a well gushes out its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her. Sickness and wounds keep coming to my attention.
Through the abundance of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I expelled you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and banished you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
And he said to me, ‘Do you see this, son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the detestable acts they are doing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and repeatedly anger me, even putting the branch to their nose?
How long, Lord, must I call for help and you do not listen or cry out to you about violence and you do not save?
For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of animals will terrify you because of your human bloodshed and violence against lands, cities, and all who live in them.
Since you have plundered many nations, all the peoples who remain will plunder you – because of human bloodshed and violence against lands, cities, and all who live in them.
Both were righteous in God’s sight, living blamelessly according to all the commands and requirements of the Lord.
For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified.
Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are subject to the law, , so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgement. ,
For I know that after my death you will become completely corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. Disaster will come to you in the future, because you will do what is evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him with what your hands have made.’
Whenever the judge died, the Israelites would act even more corruptly than their ancestors, following other gods to serve them and bow in worship to them. They did not turn from their evil practices or their obstinate ways.