They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as if he were like the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of human hands.
Ezekiel 25:8 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Thus says the Lord God: Because Moab said, The house of Judah is like all the other nations, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus says the Lord God: Because Moab says, as does Seir [Edom], Behold, the house of Judah is like all the [heathen] nations, American Standard Version (1901) Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations; Common English Bible The LORD God proclaims: Because Moab and Seir say, “Aha! The house of Judah has become like all the nations,” Catholic Public Domain Version Thus says the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the Gentiles!' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said: Behold, the house of Juda is like all other nations: |
They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as if he were like the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of human hands.
For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain. The Moabites shall be trodden down in their place as straw is trodden down in a dung-pit.
Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: I am about to pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to King Zedekiah of Judah.
Mortal, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, “Aha, broken is the gateway of the peoples; it has swung open to me; I shall be replenished, now that it is wasted.”
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near— a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the borderlands of Moab, and the territory of all the Shethites.
not to engage in battle with them, for I will not give you even so much as a foot's length of their land, since I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.