‘You must not hold back offerings from your harvest or your vats. Give me the firstborn of your sons.
Jeremiah 2:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it found themselves guilty; disaster came on them.’ This is the Lord’s declaration. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Israel was holiness [something set apart from ordinary purposes, dedicated] to the Lord, the firstfruits of His harvest [of which no stranger was allowed to partake]; all who ate of it [injuring Israel] offended and became guilty; evil came upon them, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible Israel was devoted to the LORD, the early produce of the harvest. Whoever ate from it became guilty; disaster overtook them, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version Israel is holy to the Lord, the first of his fruits. All those who devour him commit an offense. Evils will overwhelm them, says the Lord." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Israel is holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all they that devour him offend: evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord. |
‘You must not hold back offerings from your harvest or your vats. Give me the firstborn of your sons.
Also observe the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering , at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
Be sure that all who are enraged against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will become as nothing and will perish.
I was angry with my people; I profaned my possession, and I handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.
This is what the Lord says: ‘Concerning all my evil neighbours who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to my people, Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from them.
Hear the word of the Lord, house of Jacob and all families of the house of Israel.
Nevertheless, all who devoured you will be devoured, and all your adversaries #– #all of them – will go off into exile. Those who plunder you will be plundered, and all who raid you will be raided.
Whoever found them devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We’re not guilty; instead, they have sinned against the Lord, their righteous grazing land, the hope of their ancestors, the Lord.’
Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children the next generation.
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and to those who feel secure on the hill of Samaria – the notable people in this first of the nations, those the house of Israel comes to.
Then they sweep by like the wind and pass through. They are guilty; their strength is their god.
I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease, for I was a little angry, but they made the destruction worse.
For the Lord of Armies says this: ‘In pursuit of his glory, he sent me against the nations plundering you, for whoever touches you touches the pupil of my eye.
I am giving you all the best of the fresh oil, new wine, and grain, which the Israelites give to the Lord as their firstfruits.
Now if the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Greet also the church that meets in their home. Greet my dear friend Epaenetus, who is the first convert , to Christ from Asia. ,
For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him. ,
for you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
that he will elevate you to praise, fame, and glory above all the nations he has made, and that you will be a holy people to the Lord your God as he promised.’
For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
But you are a chosen race, ,, a royal priesthood, , a holy nation, , a people for his possession, , so that you may proclaim the praises ,, of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, since they remained virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed from humanity as the firstfruits for God and the Lamb.