Jeremiah 17:3 - Easy To Read Version They remember those things\par on the mountains in the open country.\par The people of Judah have many treasures.\par I will give those things to other people.\par People will destroy all the high places {\cf2\super [137]} \par in your country.\par You worshiped at those places.\par And that was a sin.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O [Jerusalem] My mountain in the field, I will give your wealth and all your treasures to the spoil and your high places for sin [as the price of your sin] throughout all your territory. American Standard Version (1901) O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders. Common English Bible Because you have committed such sins throughout your country, I will give to your enemies my mountain in the land, as well as your wealth and all that you treasure. Catholic Public Domain Version by sacrificing in the field. And so, I will give over your strength and all your treasures to be despoiled, along with your exalted places of sin, within all your borders. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Sacrificing in the field: I will give thy strength and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin in all thy borders. |
Nebuchadnezzar took from Jerusalem all the treasures in the Lord’s temple [317] and all the treasures in the king’s house. Nebuchadnezzar cut up all the golden dishes that Solomon king of Israel had put in the Lord’s temple. This happened just like the Lord said.
The people of Israel built high places {\cf2\super [453]} \par and made God angry.\par They built statues of false gods\par and made God very jealous.\par
How will Jacob’s guilt be forgiven? What will happen so his sins can be taken away? \{These things will happen\}: The rocks of the altar will be crushed to dust; the statues {\cf2\super [251]} and altars {\cf2\super [252]} for worshiping false gods will all be destroyed.
Soldiers came to take things\par from every place in that empty land.\par The Lord used those armies\par to punish that land.\par People from one end of the land\par to the other were punished.\par No person was safe.\par
The people of Judah have many treasures.\par I will give those riches to other people.\par Those other people will not have to buy them.\par \{I will give those riches to them.\}\par Why? Because Judah has many sins.\par People sinned in every part of Judah\par
The people of Jerusalem worked hard to build things and become wealthy. But I will give all those things to their enemies. The king in Jerusalem has many treasures. But I will give all those treasures to the enemy. The enemy will take those things and carry them away to the country of Babylon.
“Jerusalem, I am against you.\par You sit on top of the mountain.\par You sit like a queen over this valley.\par You people of Jerusalem say,\par ‘No person can attack us.\par No person can come into our strong city.’\par But listen to this message from the Lord.\par
They said, “Micah the prophet was from the city of Moresheth. Micah was a prophet during the time that Hezekiah was king of Judah. Micah said these things to all the people of Judah:
The enemy stretched out his hand.\par He took all of her nice things.\par In fact, she saw the foreign nations\par go inside her temple.\par And Lord, you said those people\par could not join in our assembly!\par
I will let those lovers have you. They will destroy your mounds. They will burn your places of worship. They will tear off your clothes and take your beautiful jewelry. They will leave you bare and naked \{like you were when I found you\}.
The Lord my Master said these things, “Gather the people together. Then let those people punish Oholah and Oholibah. This group of people will punish and make fun of these two women.
I will destroy your high places. [445] I will cut down your incense [446] altars. [447] I will put your dead bodies on the dead bodies of your idols. [448] You will be very disgusting to me.
\{Leaders,\} because of you,\par Zion {\cf2\super [45]} will be destroyed.\par It will become a plowed field.\par Jerusalem will become a pile of rocks.\par Temple Mount will be an empty hill {\cf2\super [46]} overgrown with bushes.\par
Then other people will take their wealth and destroy their houses. At that time, people that built houses will not live in them and people that planted fields of grapes will not drink the wine from those grapes—\{other people will get those things\}.”