Psalm 44:12 - Easy To Read Version God, you sold your people for nothing.\par You didn’t even argue over the price.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou sellest thy people for nought, And dost not increase thy wealth by their price. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You sell Your people for nothing, and have not increased Your wealth by their price. American Standard Version (1901) Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased thy wealth by their price. Common English Bible You’ve sold your people for nothing, not even bothering to set a decent price. Catholic Public Domain Version And the king will desire your beauty. For he is the Lord your God, and they will adore him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord thy God, and him they shall adore. |
The Lord says,\par “\{People of Israel, you say that I divorced\par your mother, Jerusalem.\}\par But where is the legal paper\par that proves I divorced her?\par My children, did I owe money to someone?\par Did I sell you to pay a debt?\par No! You were sold\par because of the bad things you did.\par Your mother (Jerusalem) was sent away\par because of the bad things you did.\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
I will scatter you among the nations. I will pull out my sword and destroy you. Your land will become empty and your cities will be destroyed.
Can one person chase away 1,000 men? Can two men cause 10,000 men to run away? That will happen only if the Lord gives them to their enemy! That will happen only if their Rock [215] (God) sells them like slaves!
The Lord will scatter you among the nations. And only a few of you will be left alive to go to the countries where the Lord will send you.
Those merchants also sell cinnamon, spice, incense, frankincense, myrrh, wine, and olive oil; fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, and the bodies and souls of men. \{The merchants will cry and say:\}
The Lord was angry with the people of Israel. So the Lord let enemies attack the people of Israel and take their possessions. The Lord let their enemies that lived around them defeat them. The people of Israel could not protect themselves from their enemies.
The Lord was angry with the people of Israel. The Lord allowed Cushan Rishathaim, the king of Aram Naharaim [25] to defeat the people of Israel and to rule over them. The people of Israel were under that king’s rule for eight years.