And he was an able hunter before the Lord. From this, a proverb came forth: 'Just like Nimrod, an able hunter before the Lord.'
Genesis 6:11 - Catholic Public Domain Version Yet the earth was corrupted before the eyes of God, and it was filled with iniquity. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The earth was depraved and putrid in God's sight, and the land was filled with violence (desecration, infringement, outrage, assault, and lust for power). American Standard Version (1901) And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. Common English Bible In God’s sight, the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity. English Standard Version 2016 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. |
And he was an able hunter before the Lord. From this, a proverb came forth: 'Just like Nimrod, an able hunter before the Lord.'
But the men of Sodom were very wicked, and they were sinners before the Lord beyond measure.
And the Lord said to him: "Enter the ark, you and all your house. For I have seen you to be just in my sight, within this generation.
and your heart was softened, and you humbled yourself in the sight of God concerning these things which have been said against this place and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and since, revering my face, you have torn your garments, and have wept before me: I also have heeded you, says the Lord.
They have said: "We will magnify our tongue; our lips belong to us. What is Lord to us?"
O God, I have announced my life to you. You have placed my tears in your sight, and even in your promise.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: "Go, descend. Your people, whom you led away from the land of Egypt, have sinned.
Iniquity will no longer be heard in your land, nor devastation and destruction in your borders. And salvation will occupy your walls, and praise will occupy your gates.
Just as a cistern makes its water cold, so has she made her wickedness cold. Iniquity and devastation will be heard in her; sickness and wounds will be ever before me.
By the multitude of your business dealings, your interior was filled with iniquity, and you sinned. And I cast you away from the mountain of God, and I perished you, O protecting cherub, from the midst of the stones containing fire.
And he said to me: "Certainly, son of man, you have seen. Can this be so trivial to the house of Judah, when they commit these abominations, just as they have committed here, that, having filled the earth with iniquity, they now turn to provoke me? And behold, they are applying a branch to their nose.
How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and you will not heed? Shall I shout to you while suffering violence, and you will not save?
For the iniquity of Lebanon will cover you, and the devastation of animals which will deter them from the blood of men, and the iniquity of the earth and the city, and of all who dwell therein.
Because you have despoiled many peoples, all those who are left of the people shall despoil you, because of the blood of men, and the iniquity of the earth, of the city and all who dwell therein.
Now they were both just before God, progressing in all of the commandments and the justifications of the Lord without blame.
For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but rather it is the doers of the law who shall be justified.
But we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to God.
For I know that, after my death, you will act with iniquity, and you will quickly depart from the way that I have instructed to you. And so, evils will meet you in the end time, when you will have done evil in the sight of the Lord so as to provoke him through the works of your hands."
But after a judge had died, they turned back, and they were doing much worse things than their fathers had done, following strange gods, serving them, and adoring them. They did not abandon their pursuits and their very stubborn way, by which they were accustomed to walk.