Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them round your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Jeremiah 17:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The sin of Judah is inscribed with an iron stylus. With a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of their altars, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THE SIN of Judah is written with a pen or stylus of iron and with the point of a diamond; it is engraved on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars, American Standard Version (1901) The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; Common English Bible Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron pen. It’s etched with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. Catholic Public Domain Version "The sin of Judah has been written with a pen of iron and a point of diamond. It has been engraved upon the breadth of their heart and upon the horns of their shrines. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of their altars. |
Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them round your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah, and the altars you have set up to Shame , #– #altars to burn incense to Baal #– #as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem.
Even if you wash with lye and use a great amount of bleach, , the stain of your iniquity is still in front of me. This is the Lord God’s declaration.
‘Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days’ #– #the Lord’s declaration. ‘I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?
Since Gilead is full of evil, they will certainly come to nothing. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; even their altars will be like piles of rocks on the furrows of a field.
But they never consider that I remember all their evil. Now their actions are all around them; they are right in front of my face.
When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
Then the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering. The rest of its blood he is to pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the Lord of Armies had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore intense anger came from the Lord of Armies.
You show that you are Christ’s letter, delivered by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God #– #not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. ,