Jeremiah 48:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Cursed be he who does the work of the LORD negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood. 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. |
As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.
As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. The king of Yisra'el said to him, So shall your judgment be; yourself have decided it.
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 go for his life, and your people for his people.
The man of God was angry with him, and said, You should have struck five or six times: then had you struck Syria until you had consumed it, whereas now you shall strike Syria but thrice.
and say you to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el: Cursed be the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant,
You sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you be quiet? put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.
How can you be quiet, seeing the LORD has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it.
The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, the LORD of Armies, has a work [to do] in the land of the Kasdim.
Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
but don't stay; pursue after your enemies, and strike the hindmost of them; don't allow them to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.
Curse Meroz, said the angel of the LORD. Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn't come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.
Now go and strike `Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
But Sha'ul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.