Isaiah 5:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to those who draw [calamity] with cords of iniquity and falsehood, who bring punishment to themselves with a cart rope of wickedness, American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope; Common English Bible Doom to those who drag guilt along with cords of fraud, and haul sin as if with cart ropes, Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to you who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and who draw sin as if with the rope of a cart, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart. |
For you said, ‘We have made a covenant with Death, and we have an agreement with Sheol; when the overwhelming catastrophe passes through, it will not touch us, because we have made falsehood our refuge and have hidden behind treachery.’
For the land is full of adulterers; the land mourns because of the curse, and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up. Their way of life has become evil, and their power is not rightly used,
Among the prophets of Jerusalem also I saw a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, and none turns his back on evil. They are all like Sodom to me; Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.
Can a person hide in secret places where I cannot see him? ’ #– #the Lord’s declaration. ‘Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? ’ #– #the Lord’s declaration.
As soon as Jehudi would read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut the scroll with a scribe’s knife and throw the columns into the fire in the hearth until the entire scroll was consumed by the fire in the hearth.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?
Because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (when I intended no distress), and because you have supported the wicked person so that he does not turn from his evil way to save his life,
And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who settle down comfortably, , who say to themselves: ‘The Lord will do nothing #– #good or bad.’
They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
In fact, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Then Micah said, ‘Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.’
This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household idols, and installed one of his sons to be his priest.