If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.’
Jeremiah 29:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised because they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbours’ wives and have spoken in my name a lie, which I did not command them. I am he who knows, and I am a witness.’ This is the Lord’s declaration. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because they have committed folly in Israel and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I had not commanded them. I am the One Who knows and I am witness, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I am he that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible They committed a horrible scandal in Israel—adultery with their neighbors’ wives and deceit spoken in my name, with which I had nothing to do. Yet I’m still aware of it and am witness to it, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version For they have acted foolishly in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and they have spoken lying words in my name, which I did not command them. I am the Judge and the Witness, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because they have acted folly in Israel and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not. I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord. |
If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.’
Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter, and such a thing should not be done.
‘Don’t, my brother! ’ she cried. ‘Don’t disgrace me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Don’t commit this outrage!
For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes, and he considers all his paths.
Your adulteries and your lustful neighing, your depraved prostitution on the hills, in the fields – I have seen your abhorrent acts. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You are unclean – for how long yet?
for my gaze takes in all their ways. They are not concealed from me, and their iniquity is not hidden from my sight.
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.
This is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are deluding you. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the Lord’s mouth.
I did not send out these prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.
I am against those who prophesy false dreams’ #– #the Lord’s declaration #– #‘telling them and leading my people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.
This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, the ones prophesying a lie to you in my name: ‘I am about to hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.
‘Send a message to all the exiles, saying, “This is what the Lord says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah prophesied to you, though I did not send him, and made you trust a lie,
They are well-fed, eager stallions, each neighing after someone else’s wife.
Has this house, which bears my name, become a den of robbers in your view? Yes, I too have seen it. This is the Lord’s declaration.
You boasted against me with your mouth, and spoke many words against me. I heard it myself!
Her prophets are reckless – treacherous men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to instruction.
And you ask, ‘Why? ’ Because even though the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, you have acted treacherously against her. She was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.
‘I will come to you in judgement, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident foreigner. They do not fear me,’ says the Lord of Armies.
No creature is hidden from him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by his blood,
‘Write to the angel of the church in Laodicea: Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator , of God’s creation:
The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, ‘The Lord is our witness if we don’t do as you say.’