Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Ezekiel 14:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition That I may lay hold of the house of Israel in the thoughts of their own mind and heart, because they are all estranged from Me through their idols. American Standard Version (1901) that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. Common English Bible So I’ll seize the hearts of the house of Israel, whose idols have made them all strangers to me. Catholic Public Domain Version so that the house of Israel may be seized within their own heart, by which they have withdrawn from me to all their idols. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols. |
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.