Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land lies parched and the pastures in the wilderness are withered. The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly. New Living Translation For the land is full of adultery, and it lies under a curse. The land itself is in mourning— its wilderness pastures are dried up. For they all do evil and abuse what power they have. English Standard Version For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right. Berean Standard Bible For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused. King James Bible For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. New King James Version For the land is full of adulterers; For because of a curse the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their course of life is evil, And their might is not right. New American Standard Bible For the land is full of adulterers; For the land mourns because of the curse. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil And their might is not right. NASB 1995 For the land is full of adulterers; For the land mourns because of the curse. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course also is evil And their might is not right. NASB 1977 For the land is full of adulterers; For the land mourns because of the curse. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course also is evil, And their might is not right. Legacy Standard Bible For the land is full of adulterers; For the land mourns because of the curse. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course also is evil, And their might is not right. Amplified Bible For the land is full of adulterers (unfaithful to God); The land mourns because of the curse [of God upon it]. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. The course of action [of the false prophets] is evil and they rush into wickedness; And their power is not right. Christian Standard Bible For the land is full of adulterers; the land mourns because of the curse, and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up. Their way of life has become evil, and their power is not rightly used Holman Christian Standard Bible For the land is full of adulterers; the land mourns because of the curse, and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up. Their way of life has become evil, and their power is not rightly used American Standard Version For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right; Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because adulterers and rapists have filled the land; because of these, the land has mourned and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up, and their hard labor was evil, and they did not prosper by their fortitude Brenton Septuagint Translation For because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is become evil, and so also their strength. Contemporary English Version Those unfaithful prophets misuse their power all over the country. So God turned the pasturelands into scorching deserts. Douay-Rheims Bible Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and their course is become evil, and their strength unlike. English Revised Version For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is evil, and their force is not right. GOD'S WORD® Translation The land is filled with adulterers. The land mourns because of the curse. Pastures in the wilderness have dried up. The people are evil, and they use their strength to do the wrong things. Good News Translation The land is full of people unfaithful to the LORD; they live wicked lives and misuse their power. Because of the LORD's curse the land mourns and the pastures are dry. International Standard Version Indeed, the land is full of adulterers. Indeed, the land mourns because of the curse; the pastures of the wilderness have dried up. The adulterers' lifestyles are evil, and they use their strength for what is not right. JPS Tanakh 1917 For the land is full of adulterers; For because of swearing the land mourneth, The pastures of the wilderness are dried up; And their course is evil, And their force is not right. Literal Standard Version For the land has been full of adulterers, | For the land has mourned because of these, | The pleasant places of the wilderness have dried up, | And their course is evil, and their might—not right. Majority Standard Bible For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused. New American Bible The land is filled with adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, the pastures of the wilderness are withered. Theirs is an evil course, theirs is unjust power. NET Bible For the land is full of people unfaithful to him. They live wicked lives and they misuse their power. So the land is dried up because it is under his curse. The pastures in the wilderness are withered. New Revised Standard Version For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course has been evil, and their might is not right. New Heart English Bible For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. "Their course is evil, and their might is not right; Webster's Bible Translation For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. World English Bible “For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right; Young's Literal Translation For of adulterers hath the land been full, For because of these hath the land mourned, Dried up hath been the pleasant places of the wilderness, And their course is evil, and their might -- not right. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Lying Prophets9As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words. 10For the land is full of adulterers— because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up— their course is evil and their power is misused. 11“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.… Cross References Leviticus 5:1 "If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity. Psalm 107:34 and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers. Isaiah 5:18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes, Jeremiah 9:2 If only I had a traveler's lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people. Jeremiah 9:10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away. Jeremiah 9:12 Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it? Jeremiah 12:4 How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, "He cannot see what our end will be." Treasury of Scripture For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. full. Jeremiah 5:7,8 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses… Jeremiah 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; Jeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. because. Zechariah 5:3,4 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it… 1 Timothy 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; swearing. Jeremiah 12:3,4 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter… Jeremiah 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. Lamentations 1:2-4 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies… the pleasant. Jeremiah 9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Isaiah 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. course. Jump to Previous Adulterers Course Curse Desert Dried Dry Evil Execration Fields Follow Force Full Green Grief Lies Mourned Mourneth Mourns Parched Pastures Places Pleasant Power Prophets Right Strength Swearing Untrue Use Waste Wilderness Withered WivesJump to Next Adulterers Course Curse Desert Dried Dry Evil Execration Fields Follow Force Full Green Grief Lies Mourned Mourneth Mourns Parched Pastures Places Pleasant Power Prophets Right Strength Swearing Untrue Use Waste Wilderness Withered WivesJeremiah 23 1. He prophesies a restoration of the scattered flock.5. Christ shall rule and save them. 9. Against false prophets; 33. and mockers of the true prophets. (10) The land is full of adulterers.--The context shows that the words must be taken literally, and not of the spiritual adultery of the worship of other Gods. The false prophets and their followers were personally profligates, like those of 2Peter 2:14. (Comp. Jeremiah 5:7-8; Jeremiah 29:23.) Because of swearing.--Better, because of the curse--i.e., that which comes from Jehovah on account of the wickedness of the people. The land mourneth.--This, and the "drying up" of the "pleasant places" or "pastures," refers apparently to the drought described in Jeremiah 12:4; Jeremiah 14:2, or to some similar visitation. . . . Verse 10. - The land is full of adulterers. The false prophets connive at flagrant immoralities, one of which is mentioned as a typical sin. As to the nature of the adultery, see note on Jeremiah 5:7. Because of swearing; rather, because of the curse; the curse, namely, with which God punishes the guilty earth (comp. Zechariah 5:3; Daniel 9:11; and especially Isaiah 24:6, where in the original there is a paronomasia very similar to that here). The land mourneth; a figurative expression, suggested partly by the assonance of the word for "curse." Drought is what is meant (comp. Jeremiah 12:4; Jeremiah 14:1, 2). The pleasant places of the wilderness; rather, the pastures of the prairie-land ("wilderness" suggests ideas very alien to the context). Their course; literally, their running (comp. Jeremiah 8:6). The subject is "the inhabitants of the land." Their force is not right; rather, their might (or, heroism) is untruth. They are "mighty men" only in telling untruths (comp. Jeremiah 9:3; Isaiah 5:22).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּ֤י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction the land הָאָ֔רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land is full of מָלְאָ֣ה (mā·lə·’āh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of adulterers— מְנָֽאֲפִים֙ (mə·nā·’ă·p̄îm) Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 5003: To commit adultery, to apostatize because of מִפְּנֵ֤י (mip·pə·nê) Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct Strong's 6440: The face the curse אָלָה֙ (’ā·lāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 423: An imprecation the land הָאָ֔רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land mourns, אָבְלָ֣ה (’ā·ḇə·lāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 56: To bewail and the pastures נְא֣וֹת (nə·’ō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural construct Strong's 4999: Habitation, house, pasture, pleasant place of the wilderness מִדְבָּ֑ר (miḏ·bār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech have dried up— יָבְשׁ֖וּ (yā·ḇə·šū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 3001: To be ashamed, confused, disappointed, to dry up, wither their course מְרֽוּצָתָם֙ (mə·rū·ṣā·ṯām) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 4794: A running, course is וַתְּהִ֤י (wat·tə·hî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be evil רָעָ֔ה (rā·‘āh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 7451: Bad, evil and their power וּגְבוּרָתָ֖ם (ū·ḡə·ḇū·rā·ṯām) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1369: Force, valor, victory is misused. לֹא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no Links Jeremiah 23:10 NIVJeremiah 23:10 NLT Jeremiah 23:10 ESV Jeremiah 23:10 NASB Jeremiah 23:10 KJV Jeremiah 23:10 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 23:10 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 23:10 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 23:10 French Bible Jeremiah 23:10 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers (Jer.) |
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