Jeremiah 48:10 - English Standard Version 2016 “Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Cursed be he who does the work of the Lord negligently [with slackness, deceitfully]; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood [in executing judgment pronounced by the Lord]. American Standard Version (1901) Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. Common English Bible Cursed is the one who is halfhearted in doing the LORD’s work. Cursed is the one who restrains the sword from bloodshed. Catholic Public Domain Version Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord deceitfully. And cursed is he who prohibits his sword from blood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood. |
And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’
And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.”
And he said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall be for his life, and your people for his people.’”
Then the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times.”
You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not hear the words of this covenant
Ah, sword of the Lord! How long till you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still!
How can it be quiet when the Lord has given it a charge? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it.”
The Lord has opened his armory and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord God of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
but do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies; attack their rear guard. Do not let them enter their cities, for the Lord your God has given them into your hand.”
“Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord, curse its inhabitants thoroughly, because they did not come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.