For the LORD of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Yisra'el and of the house of Yehudah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Ba`al.
Jeremiah 40:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The captain of the guard took Yirmeyahu, and said to him, the LORD your God pronounced this evil on this place; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, The Lord your God pronounced evil upon this place. American Standard Version (1901) And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place; Common English Bible The captain of the special guard located Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God declared that a great disaster would overtake this place. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, the leader of the military, taking Jeremiah, said to him: "The Lord your God has declared this evil over this place, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the general of the army, taking Jeremias, said to him: The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place. |
For the LORD of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Yisra'el and of the house of Yehudah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Ba`al.
All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
But Nevuzar'adan 1 the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.
*'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these mitzvot;
But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his mitzvot and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?
The LORD saw [it], and abhorred [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.