Moshe returned to the LORD, and said, *Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
Jeremiah 4:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Yerushalayim, saying, You shall have shalom; whereas the sword reaches to the life. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then I [Jeremiah] said, Alas, Lord God! Surely You have greatly deceived and misled this people and Jerusalem, [for the prophets represented You as] saying [to Your people], You shall have peace, whereas the sword has reached to [their very] life. American Standard Version (1901) Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the life. Common English Bible Then I said, “LORD God, no! You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem by promising them peace even though the sword is at their throats.” Catholic Public Domain Version And I said: "Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God! Could it be that you have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: 'Peace shall be yours,' while, behold, the sword reaches even to the soul?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace? And, Behold, the sword reacheth even to the soul. |
Moshe returned to the LORD, and said, *Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
who tell the seers, *Don't see!* and to the prophets, *Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'*
O LORD, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child.
They say continually to those who despise me, the LORD has said, You shall have shalom; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.
Ah Lord GOD! behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,
Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.
They have denied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Shalom, shalom; when there is no shalom.
They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Shalom, shalom; when there is no shalom.
The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.
It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatyah the son of Benayah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! will you make a full end of the remnant of Yisra'el?
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;