Ah, sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, offspring who do evil, children who deal corruptly, who have forsaken the Lord, who have despised the Holy One of Israel, who are utterly estranged!
Ezekiel 14:5 - New Revised Standard Version in order that I may take hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, all of whom are 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 Catholic Public Domain Version so that the house of Israel may be seized within their own heart, by which they have withdrawn from me to all their idols.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, people laden with iniquity, offspring who do evil, children who deal corruptly, who have forsaken the Lord, who have despised the Holy One of Israel, who are utterly estranged!
I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.
Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthless things, and became worthless themselves?
Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars, and destroy their pillars.
In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,
For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law—indeed it cannot,
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.
And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,
Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.