Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly: they have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward.
Ezekiel 14:5 - Revised Version 1885 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 Catholic Public Domain Version so that the house of Israel may be seized within their own heart, by which they have withdrawn from me to all their idols.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 evil-doers, children that deal corruptly: they have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward.
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
thus saith the LORD, What unrighteousness 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 guilty: he shall smite their altars, he shall spoil their pillars.
And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;
And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, yet now hath he reconciled
Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: