For this reason, God, all your followers should pray to you.\par Your followers should pray even when troubles come like a great flood.\par
Hosea 5:10 - Easy To Read Version The leaders of Judah are like thieves\par trying to steal another man’s property.\par So I (God) will pour out my anger\par on them like water.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The princes of Judah are like those who remove the landmark [the barrier between right and wrong]; I will pour out My wrath upon them like water. [Deut. 19:14; Prov. 22:28.] American Standard Version (1901) The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. Common English Bible The princes of Judah act like raiders who steal the land; I will pour out my anger like water upon them. Catholic Public Domain Version The leaders of Judah have become like those who assume the end. I will pour my wrath over them like water. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. |
For this reason, God, all your followers should pray to you.\par Your followers should pray even when troubles come like a great flood.\par
The aches and pains are always with me.\par I feel like I am drowning\par in my aches and pains.\par
If you start an argument, it is like breaking a hole in a dam. So stop the argument before it becomes bigger and bigger.
Never move an old property line that was marked long ago by your ancestors. {\cf2\super [31]}
Your rulers are rebels and friends of thieves. All of your rulers demand bribes—they accept money for doing wrong things. All of your rulers take pay for cheating people. Your rulers don’t try to help the children that have no parents. And your rulers don’t listen to the needs of the women whose husbands are dead.”
Silver melts in the fire \{and workers pour off the silver and save it\}. In the same way, you will melt in the city. Then you will know that I am the Lord. And you will know that I have poured out my anger against you.’”
Very soon now, I will show you how angry I am. I will show all of my anger against you. I will punish you for the bad things you did. I will make you pay for all the terrible things you did.
It rained hard, the water rose, and the winds blew and hit that house. And the house fell with a loud noise.”
But the person that hears my words and does not obey is like a man that does not build his house on rock. When the floods come, the house falls down easily. And the house is completely destroyed.”
“You must not move the stones that mark your neighbor’s property. People put those stones there in the past to mark each person’s property. Those stones mark the land that the Lord your God gave you.
“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that moves his neighbor’s landmark [176] !’