Tell him, “This is what the Lord says: Have you murdered and also taken possession? ” Then tell him, “This is what the Lord says: In the place where the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick up your blood! ” ’
Jeremiah 22:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness and dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression and doing violence. American Standard Version (1901) But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. Common English Bible But you set your eyes and heart on nothing but unjust gain; you spill the blood of the innocent; you practice cruelty; you oppress your subjects. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, your eyes and your heart are toward avarice and the shedding of innocent blood, and toward false accusations and the pursuit of evil deeds. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness and upon shedding innocent blood and upon oppression and running after evil works. |
Tell him, “This is what the Lord says: Have you murdered and also taken possession? ” Then tell him, “This is what the Lord says: In the place where the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick up your blood! ” ’
He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight just as his ancestors had done.
and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.
The rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim, the detestable actions he committed, and what was found against him, are written in the Book of Israel’s Kings. His son Jehoiachin became king in his place.
If my step has turned from the way, my heart has followed my eyes, or impurity has stained my hands,
But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating dishonest profit. Place them over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own profit.
He who makes a fortune unjustly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay. In the middle of his life his riches will abandon him, so in the end he will be a fool.
because they have abandoned me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
This is what the Lord says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from his oppressor. Don’t exploit or brutalise the resident foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is making profit dishonestly. From prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
For this is what the Lord of Armies says: Cut down the trees; raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished. There is nothing but oppression within her.
if you no longer oppress the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,
Therefore, I will give their wives to other men, their fields to new occupants, for from the least to the greatest, everyone is making profit dishonestly. From prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
and when he oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and does not return collateral, and when he looks to the idols, commits detestable acts,
He prowled among the lions, and he became a young lion. After he learned to tear prey, he devoured people.
He devastated their strongholds and destroyed their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.
They put a wooden yoke on him with hooks and led him away to the king of Babylon. They brought him into the fortresses so that his roar could no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.
‘ “Look, every prince of Israel within you has used his strength to shed blood.
So my people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Their mouths go on passionately, but their hearts pursue dishonest profit.
They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.
The princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for the morning.
They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom.
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon, two and a half kilograms of silver, and a bar of gold weighing half a kilogram, I coveted them and took them. You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under the cloak.’
They have eyes full of adultery that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!
They will exploit you in their greed with made-up stories. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.
However, his sons did not walk in his ways #– #they turned towards dishonest profit, took bribes, and perverted justice.