Then Moses turned again to the Lord and said, “O Lord, why have you mistreated this people? Why did you ever send me?
Jeremiah 4:10 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Then I said, “Ah, Lord God, how utterly you have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It shall be well with you,’ even while the sword is at the throat!” Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then I [Jeremiah] said, Alas, Lord God! Surely You have greatly deceived and misled this people and Jerusalem, [for the prophets represented You as] saying [to Your people], You shall have peace, whereas the sword has reached to [their very] life. American Standard Version (1901) Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the life. Common English Bible Then I said, “LORD God, no! You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem by promising them peace even though the sword is at their throats.” Catholic Public Domain Version And I said: "Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God! Could it be that you have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: 'Peace shall be yours,' while, behold, the sword reaches even to the soul?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace? And, Behold, the sword reacheth even to the soul. |
Then Moses turned again to the Lord and said, “O Lord, why have you mistreated this people? Why did you ever send me?
For this time I will send all my plagues upon you yourself, and upon your officials, and upon your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
who say to the seers, “Do not see”; and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.’ ”
Why, O Lord, do you make us stray from your ways and harden our heart, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, for the sake of the tribes that are your heritage.
Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.”
They keep saying to those who despise the word of the Lord, “It shall be well with you”; and to all who stubbornly follow their own stubborn hearts, they say, “No calamity shall come upon you.”
Ah Lord God! It is you who made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom; how bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.”
They have spoken falsely of the Lord, and have said, “He will do nothing. No evil will come upon us, and we shall not see sword or famine.”
They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.
They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.
The young and the old are lying on the ground in the streets; my young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; in the day of your anger you have killed them, slaughtering without mercy.
Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord God! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves,
For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural,
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.