Jeremiah 5:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Why should I forgive you? Your children have abandoned me and sworn by those who are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery; they gashed themselves at the prostitute’s house. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why should I and how can I pass over this and forgive you for it? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by those that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full and bound them to Me by oath, they committed [spiritual] adultery, assembling themselves in troops at the houses of [idol] harlots. American Standard Version (1901) How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses; Common English Bible How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and swear by gods that are not gods. Although I could have satisfied them, they committed adultery, dashing off to the prostitution house. Catholic Public Domain Version "Over which things am I able to be merciful to you? Your sons have forsaken me, and they swear by those who are not gods. I gave them everything, and they committed adultery, and they indulged themselves in the house of the harlot. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How can I be merciful to thee? Thy children have forsaken me and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery and rioted in the harlot's house. |
Didn’t you banish the priests of the Lord, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to ordain himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.
For it is a fire that consumes down to Abaddon; it would destroy my entire harvest.
If they will diligently learn the ways of my people #– #to swear by my name, “As the Lord lives,” just as they taught my people to swear by Baal #– #they will be built up among my people.
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?
Then you will answer them, “Because your ancestors abandoned me #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #and followed other gods, served them, and bowed in worship to them. Indeed, they abandoned me and did not keep my instruction.
Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (But they were not gods! ) Yet my people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
Evil generation, pay attention to the word of the Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do my people claim, ‘We will go where we want; we will no longer come to you’?
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,
I thought, ‘How I long to make you my sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations.’ I thought, ‘You will call me “My Father” and never turn away from me.’
I observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce. Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.
‘ “Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?
If my head were a flowing spring, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear people.
If only I had a traveller’s lodging place in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a solemn assembly of treacherous people.
One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbour’s wife; another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart; my compassion is stirred!
When they had pasture, they became satisfied; they were satisfied, and their hearts became proud. Therefore they forgot me.
Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
‘If a man commits adultery with a married woman #– #if he commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife #– #both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As your god lives, Dan,’ or, ‘As the way , of Beer-sheba lives’ – they will fall, never to rise again.
those who bow in worship on the rooftops to the stars in the sky; those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord but also pledge loyalty to Milcom; ,
‘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.
Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males, ,
About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’, and that ‘there is no God but one’.
But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.
Then Jeshurun , became fat and rebelled – you became fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
They have provoked my jealousy with what is not a god; they have enraged me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with what is not a people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
Marriage is to be honoured by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
and so that you do not associate with these nations remaining among you. Do not call on the names of their gods or make an oath to them; do not serve them or bow in worship to them.