The leech has two daughters; “Give, give,” they cry. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”:
Judges 18:20 - Revised Standard Version CI And the priest's heart was glad; he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. American Standard Version (1901) And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. Common English Bible The priest was convinced, so he took the priestly vest, the divine images, and the sculpted image and went along with the people. Catholic Public Domain Version And when he had heard this, he agreed to their words. And he took the ephod, and the idols, and the graven image, and he set out with them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When he had heard this, he agreed to their words, and took the ephod, and the idols, and the graven god, and departed with them. |
The leech has two daughters; “Give, give,” they cry. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”:
The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. The shepherds also have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.
You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death persons who should not die and keeping alive persons who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.
For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the teraphim, he looks at the liver.
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air; and even the fish of the sea are taken away.
“You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no graven image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down to them; for I am the Lord your God.
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.
And Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, and a suit of apparel, and your living.”
And they said to him, “Keep quiet, put your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and family in Israel?”
So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the cattle and the goods in front of them.