He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, *Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.*
Genesis 6:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The earth was depraved and putrid in God's sight, and the land was filled with violence (desecration, infringement, outrage, assault, and lust for power). American Standard Version (1901) And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. Common English Bible In God’s sight, the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet the earth was corrupted before the eyes of God, and it was filled with iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity. |
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, *Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.*
Now the men of Sedom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD.
The LORD said to Noach, *Come with all of your household into the teivah, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says the LORD.
The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
The LORD spoke to Moshe, *Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering Keruv, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Yehudah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you *Violence!* and will you not save?
For the violence done to Levanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the mitzvot and ordinances of the Lord.
For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.