逐节对照
- Amplified Bible - Righteousness [moral and spiritual integrity and virtuous character] exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people.
- 新标点和合本 - 公义使邦国高举; 罪恶是人民的羞辱。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 公义使邦国高举; 罪恶是百姓的羞辱。
- 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 公义使邦国高举; 罪恶是百姓的羞辱。
- 当代译本 - 公义能叫邦国兴盛, 罪恶是人民的耻辱。
- 圣经新译本 - 正义使国家兴盛, 罪恶是人民的羞辱。
- 中文标准译本 - 公义使国家兴起, 罪恶是国民的耻辱。
- 现代标点和合本 - 公义使邦国高举, 罪恶是人民的羞辱。
- 和合本(拼音版) - 公义使邦国高举, 罪恶是人民的羞辱。
- New International Version - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.
- New International Reader's Version - Doing what is right lifts people up. But sin brings judgment to any nation.
- English Standard Version - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
- New Living Translation - Godliness makes a nation great, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
- The Message - God-devotion makes a country strong; God-avoidance leaves people weak.
- Christian Standard Bible - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
- New American Standard Bible - Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people.
- New King James Version - Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people.
- American Standard Version - Righteousness exalteth a nation; But sin is a reproach to any people.
- King James Version - Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
- New English Translation - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
- World English Bible - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
- 新標點和合本 - 公義使邦國高舉; 罪惡是人民的羞辱。
- 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 公義使邦國高舉; 罪惡是百姓的羞辱。
- 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 公義使邦國高舉; 罪惡是百姓的羞辱。
- 當代譯本 - 公義能叫邦國興盛, 罪惡是人民的恥辱。
- 聖經新譯本 - 正義使國家興盛, 罪惡是人民的羞辱。
- 呂振中譯本 - 公義使邦國崇高; 罪惡是民族的羞辱 。
- 中文標準譯本 - 公義使國家興起, 罪惡是國民的恥辱。
- 現代標點和合本 - 公義使邦國高舉, 罪惡是人民的羞辱。
- 文理和合譯本 - 公義興國、罪惡辱民、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 仁義則邦以興、否則國以辱。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 善義使邦興、過惡使國辱、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - La justicia enaltece a una nación, pero el pecado deshonra a todos los pueblos.
- 현대인의 성경 - 의는 나라를 높여도 죄는 백성을 부끄럽게 한다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Праведность возносит народ, а грех – позор для него.
- Восточный перевод - Праведность возносит народ, а грех – позор для него.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Праведность возносит народ, а грех – позор для него.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Праведность возносит народ, а грех – позор для него.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - La justice grandit une nation, mais le péché est une honte pour tout peuple.
- リビングバイブル - 神を敬うことは国を高め、 罪は民をおとしめます。
- Nova Versão Internacional - A justiça engrandece a nação, mas o pecado é uma vergonha para qualquer povo.
- Hoffnung für alle - Gerechtigkeit macht ein Volk groß, doch Sünde ist für jedes Volk eine Schande.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Đức công chính làm cho quốc gia được tán tụng, nhưng tội lỗi đem lại sỉ nhục cho toàn dân.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ความชอบธรรมเชิดชูชาติ แต่บาปทำให้ชนชาติต่างๆ ถูกพิพากษา
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ความชอบธรรมเชิดชูประชาชาติให้สูงขึ้น แต่บาปเป็นที่น่าอัปยศอดสูแก่บรรดาชนชาติ
交叉引用
- Ezekiel 22:1 - Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 22:2 - “And you, son of man [Ezekiel], will you judge, will you judge the city of bloodshed? Then make her recognize all her repulsive acts.
- Ezekiel 22:3 - You shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time [of doom] will come, and makes idols to defile her, contrary to her interest!
- Ezekiel 22:4 - You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols which you have made. Thus you have caused your day [of judgment and punishment] to approach and have arrived at [the completion of] your years; therefore, I have made you an object of scorn to the [pagan] nations and a thing to be mocked by all countries.
- Ezekiel 22:5 - Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you [infamous one] of ill repute, full of turmoil.
- Ezekiel 22:6 - “Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been intending to shed blood in you.
- Ezekiel 22:7 - In you they have treated father and mother lightly. They have oppressed the stranger among you; and in your presence they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
- Ezekiel 22:8 - You have despised and scorned My sacred things and have profaned My Sabbaths.
- Ezekiel 22:9 - In you are men who slander for the purpose of shedding blood, and in your presence they have eaten [food offered to idols] at the mountain shrines; in your midst they have committed acts of lewdness.
- Ezekiel 22:10 - In you men have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness [the nakedness of mother or stepmother]; in you they have violated women who are [set apart as ceremonially] unclean during their menstrual impurity [or after childbirth].
- Ezekiel 22:11 - In you one has committed a shameful act with his neighbor’s wife, another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another has violated his sister, his father’s daughter.
- Ezekiel 22:12 - In you they have accepted bribes to shed blood; you have taken [forbidden] interest and [a percentage of] profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression and extortion, and you have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 22:13 - “Behold, therefore, I strike My hands [together] at your dishonest gain which you have acquired and at the bloodshed which is among you.
- Ezekiel 22:14 - Can your heart (courage) endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and will act.
- Ezekiel 22:15 - I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will destroy your filthiness.
- Ezekiel 22:16 - You will defile yourself in the sight of the [Gentile] nations, and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.” ’ ”
- Ezekiel 22:17 - And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 22:18 - “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross (metallic waste) to Me. All of them are (useless) bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
- Ezekiel 22:19 - Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you [O Israel] into the midst of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 22:20 - As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath, and I will put you there and melt you.
- Ezekiel 22:21 - I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 22:22 - As silver is melted in the furnace, so will you be melted in the midst of it; and you will know [without any doubt] that I the Lord have poured out My wrath on you [O Israel].’ ”
- Ezekiel 22:23 - And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Judges 2:6 - And when Joshua had sent the people away, the [tribes of the] Israelites went each to his inheritance, to take possession of the land.
- Judges 2:7 - The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord which He had done for Israel.
- Judges 2:8 - Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of a hundred and ten.
- Judges 2:9 - And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
- Judges 2:10 - Also, all [the people of] that generation were gathered to their fathers [in death]; and another generation arose after them who did not know (recognize, understand) the Lord, nor even the work which He had done for Israel.
- Judges 2:11 - Then the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord and worshiped and served the Baals,
- Judges 2:12 - and they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods from the gods of the peoples who were around them, and they bowed down to them, and offended and provoked the Lord to anger.
- Judges 2:13 - So they abandoned the Lord and served Baal [the pagan god of the Canaanites] and the Ashtaroth.
- Judges 2:14 - So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands (power) of plunderers who robbed them; and He sold them into the hands of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer stand [in opposition] before their enemies.
- Ezekiel 16:1 - Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, make Jerusalem understand [the heinous and vile nature of] her repulsive (idolatrous) acts
- Ezekiel 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem (all of Israel), “Your [spiritual] origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your [spiritual] father was an Amorite and your [spiritual] mother a Hittite.
- Ezekiel 16:4 - And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing, nor were you rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
- Ezekiel 16:5 - No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out in the open field, for you were loathed on the day that you were born.
- Ezekiel 16:6 - “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your [newborn] blood, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’
- Ezekiel 16:7 - I made you (Israel) multiply like plants [which grow] in the field, and you grew up and became tall and you reached the age for [wearing] fine jewelry; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 16:8 - “Then I passed by you [again] and looked on you; behold, you were maturing and at the time for love, and I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore [an oath] to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord God, “and you became Mine.”
- Ezekiel 16:9 - “Then I washed you with water; yes, I [thoroughly] washed away from you the [clinging] blood and anointed you with oil.
- Ezekiel 16:10 - I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
- Ezekiel 16:11 - I adorned you with ornaments and I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.
- Ezekiel 16:12 - I also put a ring in your nostril and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
- Ezekiel 16:13 - Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was [made] of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; so you were extremely beautiful and you advanced and prospered into royalty.
- Ezekiel 16:14 - Then your fame went out among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My majesty and splendor which I bestowed on you,” says the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 16:15 - “But you trusted in and relied on your beauty and prostituted yourself [in idolatry and its debauched rituals] because of your fame, and you poured out your immoralities on every [willing] passer-by and your beauty was his [as you worshiped the idols of the Gentile nations].
- Ezekiel 16:16 - You took some of your clothes and made for yourself [decorated] high places and shrines of various colors and prostituted yourself on them—things which should never have come about and taken place.
- Ezekiel 16:17 - You also took your beautiful jewels and beautiful vessels made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men so that you could prostitute yourself with them;
- Ezekiel 16:18 - and you took your embroidered clothing and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.
- Ezekiel 16:19 - Also My bread which I gave you, [made from the] fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, you even offered it before idols [no better than cow dung] as a sweet and soothing aroma; so it happened,” says the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 16:20 - “Moreover, you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to Me, and you destroyed them as sacrifices [to your man-made gods]. Were your gross immoralities so small a matter?
- Ezekiel 16:21 - You slaughtered My children and offered them up to [worthless] idols, forcing them to pass through the [hideousness of the] fire.
- Ezekiel 16:22 - And in all your repulsive acts and prostitutions (idolatrous immoralities) you did not [pause to] remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, squirming in your [newborn] blood.
- Ezekiel 16:23 - “Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God),
- Ezekiel 16:24 - that you built yourself an altar for prostitution and made yourself a high place [for ritual prostitution] in every square [of Jerusalem].
- Ezekiel 16:25 - At the beginning of every street you built your high place and made your beauty repulsive; and you offered your body to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene immorality.
- Ezekiel 16:26 - You also prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors [by embracing their pagan rituals], and you multiplied your obscene immorality to provoke Me to anger.
- Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold now [listen very carefully], I have stretched out My hand against you, reduced your portion, and handed you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your infamous behavior.
- Ezekiel 16:28 - You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you prostituted yourself with them and still were not satisfied.
- Ezekiel 16:29 - Moreover, you increased your obscene immorality with the land of tradesmen, Chaldea (Babylonia), and yet even with this you were not satisfied.” ’ ”
- Ezekiel 16:30 - “How weakened by longing and lust is your heart (mind),” says the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold and brazen prostitute.
- Ezekiel 16:31 - When you built your shrine altar for prostitution at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, you were not like a prostitute because you refused payment.
- Ezekiel 16:32 - You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!
- Ezekiel 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, bribing the pagan nations to come to you [as allies] from every direction for your obscene immoralities.
- Ezekiel 16:34 - And you are different from other [unfaithful] women in your promiscuity, in that no one follows you to lure you into prostitution, and because you give money and no money is given you; in this way you are different.”
- Ezekiel 16:35 - Therefore, O prostitute [Israel], hear the word of the Lord.
- Ezekiel 16:36 - Thus says the Lord God, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene immoralities with your lovers (pagan allies), and with all your [repulsive] idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to them,
- Ezekiel 16:37 - therefore, listen, I will gather all your lovers (pagan allies) with whom you took pleasure, and all those whom you loved with all those whom you hated; I will even gather them against you from every direction and will expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness [making you, Israel, an object of loathing and of mockery, a spectacle among the nations].
- Ezekiel 16:38 - And I [the Lord God] will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
- Ezekiel 16:39 - I will also hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and they will leave you naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 16:40 - They will also incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and slaughter you with their swords.
- Ezekiel 16:41 - They will burn down your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women (Gentile nations). Then I will make you cease your prostitution, and you will no longer hire your lovers.
- Ezekiel 16:42 - So I will calm My wrath toward you and My jealousy [resulting from being denied what is rightfully and uniquely mine] will turn away from you; I will be pacified and no longer angry.
- Ezekiel 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me with all these things, therefore, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head,” says the Lord God, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other repulsive acts.
- Ezekiel 16:44 - “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
- Ezekiel 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. You are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your [spiritual] mother was a Hittite and your [spiritual] father an Amorite.
- Ezekiel 16:46 - Now your older sister is Samaria, she with her daughters (outlying cities) who live north of you; and your younger sister is Sodom, she with her daughters who live south of you.
- Ezekiel 16:47 - Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or behaved in accordance with their pagan practices; but, as if that were too little, you [soon] acted more corruptly in all your ways than they.
- Ezekiel 16:48 - As I live,” says the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
- Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters (outlying cities) had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
- Ezekiel 16:50 - They were haughty and committed repulsive acts before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.
- Ezekiel 16:51 - Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, but you have greatly increased your repulsive acts more than they. So you have made your [wicked] sisters [Samaria and Sodom] appear righteous and justified by [comparison to] all the disgusting things which you have done.
- Ezekiel 16:52 - Also bear your disgrace [as punishment], having made judgment favorable for your sisters, for [you virtually absolved them] because of your sins in which you behaved more repulsively than they; they are more in the right than you. Yes, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you made your [pagan] sisters seem righteous.
- Ezekiel 16:53 - “Nevertheless, I will restore them [again] from their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters (outlying cities), the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them [I will restore you from] your own captivity [in the day of the Lord God],
- Ezekiel 16:54 - so that you [Judah] will bear your humiliation and disgrace, and be [thoroughly] ashamed for all [the wickedness] that you have done to console and comfort them.
- Ezekiel 16:55 - Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state; and you and your daughters will return to your former state.
- Ezekiel 16:56 - For [the name of] your sister Sodom was not mentioned by you [except as a byword] in the day of your pride [when David ruled],
- Ezekiel 16:57 - before your [own] wickedness was uncovered. Now you have become an object of reproach and a byword for the daughters of Aram and of Edom and all who are around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you.
- Ezekiel 16:58 - You have borne [the penalty of] your lewdness and your repulsive acts,” says the Lord.
- Ezekiel 16:59 - Yes, thus says the Lord God, “I will also deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
- Ezekiel 16:60 - “Nevertheless, I will remember [with compassion] My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
- Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant [with Me].
- Ezekiel 16:62 - And I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord,
- Ezekiel 16:63 - so that you may remember [in detail] and be ashamed and never open your mouth again because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done,” says the Lord God.
- Jeremiah 2:2 - “Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord, “I remember [earnestly] the lovingkindness and devotion of your youth, Your time of betrothal [like that of a bride during the early years in Egypt and again at Sinai], When you followed Me in the wilderness, Through a land not sown.
- Jeremiah 2:3 - Israel was holy [something set apart from ordinary purposes, consecrated] to the Lord, The first fruits of His harvest [in which no outsider was allowed to share]. All who ate of it [injuring Israel] became guilty; Evil came on them,” says the Lord.’ ”
- Jeremiah 2:4 - Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
- Jeremiah 2:5 - Thus says the Lord, “What injustice or unrighteousness did your fathers find in Me, That they have wandered far from Me And [habitually] walked after emptiness and futility and became empty?
- Jeremiah 2:6 - They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord Who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and of pits, Through a land of drought and of the deep darkness [of the shadow of death], Through a land that no man passed through And where no man lived?’
- Jeremiah 2:7 - I brought you into a plentiful land To eat its fruit and [enjoy] its good things. But you came and defiled My land And you made My inheritance repulsive.
- Jeremiah 2:8 - [Even] the priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ And those who deal with the law [given to Moses] did not know Me. The rulers and shepherds also transgressed against Me, And the prophets prophesied by [the authority and in the name of] Baal And walked after [idolatrous] things that did not benefit [them].
- Jeremiah 2:9 - “Therefore I will still contend (struggle) with you [by bringing judgment on you],” says the Lord, “And I will contend with your children’s children.”
- Jeremiah 2:10 - “For cross over to the coasts of Kittim (Cyprus) [to the west] and see, Send also to Kedar (Arabia) [to the east] and carefully observe and consider And see whether there has been such [a thing] as this!
- Jeremiah 2:11 - Has a nation [ever] changed gods Even though they were not gods [but merely man-made objects]? But My people have exchanged their Glory (the true God) For that [man-made idol] which does not benefit [them].
- Jeremiah 2:12 - Be appalled, O heavens, at this; Be shocked and shudder with horror [at the behavior of the people],” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 2:13 - “For My people have committed two evils: They have abandoned (rejected) Me, The fountain of living water, And they have carved out their own cisterns, Broken cisterns That cannot hold water.
- Jeremiah 2:14 - “Is Israel a servant? Is he a slave by birth? Why has he become a captive and a prey?
- Jeremiah 2:15 - The young lions have roared at him, They have made their voices heard and roared loudly. And they have made his land a waste; His cities have been destroyed and are burned ruins, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 2:16 - Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes [as powerful enemies] Have shaved the crown of your head [to degrade you].
- Jeremiah 2:17 - Have you not brought this on yourself By abandoning (rejecting) the Lord your God When He led you in the way?
- Jeremiah 2:18 - Now what are you doing by going to Egypt [in search of an ally], To drink the [muddy] waters of the Nile? Or what are you doing by going to Assyria [in search of an ally], To drink the [muddy] waters of the Euphrates?
- Jeremiah 2:19 - Your own wickedness will discipline you, And your desertion of the faith will punish you. Know therefore that it is an evil and bitter thing For you to abandon (reject) the Lord your God, And for you to be indifferent to Me and dismiss the [reverent] fear of Me,” says the Lord God of hosts.
- Jeremiah 2:20 - “For long ago you broke your yoke [in deliberate disobedience] And tore off your bonds [of the law that I gave you]; You said, ‘I will not serve and obey You!’ For on every high hill And under every green tree You have lain down [in idolatrous worship] like a [compliant] prostitute.
- Jeremiah 2:21 - Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned against Me Into degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?
- Jeremiah 2:22 - For though you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your guilt is [still] before Me [and you are soiled and dirty],” says the Lord God.
- Jeremiah 2:23 - “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after [man-made gods like] the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley; Know [without any doubt] what you have done! You are a swift and restless young [female] camel [in the heat of her passion] running here and there,
- Jeremiah 2:24 - Or [you have the untamed and reckless nature of] a wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, That sniffs the wind in her passion [for the scent of a mate]. In her mating season who can restrain her? No males seeking her need to weary themselves; In her month they will find her [looking for them].
- Jeremiah 2:25 - [Cease your mad running after idols to] Keep your feet from becoming bare And your throat from becoming dry; But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I have loved strangers and foreign gods, And I will walk after them.’
- Hosea 13:1 - When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling and terror. He exalted himself [above the other tribes] in Israel; But through [the worship of] Baal he became guilty and died [spiritually, and then came ruin, sealing Israel’s doom as a nation].
- Deuteronomy 4:6 - So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
- Deuteronomy 4:7 - For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God [is to us] whenever we call on Him?
- Deuteronomy 4:8 - Or what great nation has statutes and judgments so righteous (upright, just) as this whole law which I am placing before you today?
- Deuteronomy 29:18 - so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the [false] gods of these nations; so that there will not be among you a root [of idolatry] bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood (bitterness).
- Deuteronomy 29:19 - It will happen that when he (a renegade) hears the words of this oath, and he imagines himself as blessed, saying, ‘I will have peace and safety even though I walk within the stubbornness of my heart [rejecting God and His law], in order that the watered land dwindles away along with the dry [destroying everything],’
- Deuteronomy 29:20 - the Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him; the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 29:21 - Then the Lord will single him out for disaster from all the tribes of Israel [making an example of him], according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Law.
- Deuteronomy 29:22 - Now the next generation, your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it, will say,
- Deuteronomy 29:23 - ‘The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it; it is like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath.’
- Deuteronomy 29:24 - All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done this thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
- Deuteronomy 29:25 - Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned (broke) the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 29:26 - For they went and served other gods and worshiped them, [false] gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted (given) to them.
- Deuteronomy 29:27 - So the anger of the Lord burned against this land, bringing on it every curse that is written in this book;
- Deuteronomy 29:28 - and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’
- Deuteronomy 28:1 - “Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:2 - All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you pay attention to the voice of the Lord your God.
- Deuteronomy 28:3 - “You will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed in the field.
- Deuteronomy 28:4 - “The offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your animals, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be blessed.
- Deuteronomy 28:5 - “Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed.
- Deuteronomy 28:6 - “You will be blessed when you come in and you will be blessed when you go out.
- Deuteronomy 28:7 - “The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way, but flee before you seven ways.
- Deuteronomy 28:8 - The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your storehouses and in all that you undertake, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 28:9 - The Lord will establish you as a people holy [and set apart] to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk [that is, live your life each and every day] in His ways.
- Deuteronomy 28:10 - So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you.
- Deuteronomy 28:11 - The Lord will give you great prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deuteronomy 28:12 - The Lord will open for you His good treasure house, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
- Deuteronomy 28:13 - The Lord will make you the head (leader) and not the tail (follower); and you will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen and pay attention to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, to observe them carefully.
- Deuteronomy 28:14 - Do not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to follow and serve other gods.
- Deuteronomy 28:15 - “But it shall come about, if you do not listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Deuteronomy 28:16 - “You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.
- Deuteronomy 28:17 - “Your basket and your kneading bowl will be cursed.
- Deuteronomy 28:18 - “The offspring of your body and the produce of your land, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be cursed.
- Deuteronomy 28:19 - “You will be cursed when you come in and you will be cursed when you go out.
- Deuteronomy 28:20 - “The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed, perishing quickly because of the evil of your deeds, because you have turned away from Me.
- Deuteronomy 28:21 - The Lord will make the pestilence and plague cling to you until He has consumed and eliminated you from the land which you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:22 - The Lord will strike you with consumption [causing you to waste away] and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew [on your crops]; and they will pursue you until you perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:23 - The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze [giving no rain and blocking all prayers], and the earth which is under you, iron [hard to plow and yielding no produce].
- Deuteronomy 28:24 - The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it will come down on you until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:25 - “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out against them one way, but flee before them seven ways, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth [when they see your destruction].
- Deuteronomy 28:26 - Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
- Deuteronomy 28:27 - “The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and the itch that you cannot heal.
- Deuteronomy 28:28 - The Lord will strike you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart and mind;
- Deuteronomy 28:29 - and you will be groping at noon [in broad daylight], just as the blind grope in the darkness, and nothing you do will prosper; but you will only be oppressed and exploited and robbed continually, with no one to save you.
- Deuteronomy 28:30 - You will be pledged to marry a wife, but another man will be intimate with her [before you]; you will build a house, but you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.
- Deuteronomy 28:31 - Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it; your donkey will be torn away from you, and it will not be returned to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.
- Deuteronomy 28:32 - Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.
- Deuteronomy 28:33 - A people whom you do not know will eat the produce of your land and all the products of your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and exploited and crushed continually.
- Deuteronomy 28:34 - You shall be driven mad by the sight of the things you see.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 - The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with sore boils that you cannot heal, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
- Deuteronomy 28:36 - The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you appoint over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have never known; there you will [be forced to] serve other gods, [lifeless gods of] wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 28:37 - And you will become a horror, a proverb [a mere object lesson], and a taunt [a derisive joke] among all the people to which the Lord drives you.
- Deuteronomy 28:38 - “You will bring out a great quantity of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locusts will consume it.
- Deuteronomy 28:39 - You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because the worm will eat them.
- Deuteronomy 28:40 - You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourselves with the oil, because your olives will drop off.
- Deuteronomy 28:41 - You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours [for long], because they will go into captivity.
- Deuteronomy 28:42 - The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.
- Deuteronomy 28:43 - The stranger who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.
- Deuteronomy 28:44 - He will lend to you [out of his affluence], but you will not lend to him [because of your poverty]; he will be the head, and you the tail.
- Deuteronomy 28:45 - “So all these curses will come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He has commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 28:46 - They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.
- Deuteronomy 28:47 - “Because you did not serve the Lord your God with a heart full of joy and gladness for the abundance of all things [with which He blessed you],
- Deuteronomy 28:48 - you will therefore serve your enemies whom the Lord sends against you, in hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke [of slavery] on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 28:49 - “The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle swoops down [to attack], a nation whose language you will not understand,
- Deuteronomy 28:50 - a defiant nation who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young,
- Deuteronomy 28:51 - and it will eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the offspring of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:52 - They will besiege you in all your cities until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land; and they will besiege you in all your cities throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.
- Deuteronomy 28:53 - Then you will eat the offspring of your own body [to avoid starvation], the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you.
- Deuteronomy 28:54 - The man who is most refined and well-bred among you will be cruel and hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,
- Deuteronomy 28:55 - so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, because he has nothing else left, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you in all your cities.
- Deuteronomy 28:56 - The most refined and well-bred woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and pampered, will be cruel and hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter,
- Deuteronomy 28:57 - and toward her afterbirth that comes from between her legs and toward the children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the misery by which your enemy will oppress you in your cities.
- Deuteronomy 28:58 - “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear and honor with reverence this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,
- Deuteronomy 28:59 - then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.
- Deuteronomy 28:60 - Moreover, He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
- Deuteronomy 28:61 - Also the Lord will bring on you every sickness and every plague which is not written in this book of this law, until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:62 - Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, you who were as numerous as the stars of heaven shall be left few in number.
- Deuteronomy 28:63 - It shall come about that just as the Lord delighted over you to make you prosper and multiply, so the Lord will delight over you to bring you to ruin and destruction; and you will be uprooted [violently] from the land which you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:64 - And the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you will [be forced to] serve other gods, [lifeless gods of] wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
- Deuteronomy 28:65 - Among those nations you will find no peace (rest), and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
- Deuteronomy 28:66 - Your life will hang in doubt before you; night and day you will be filled with anxiety and have no assurance of living.
- Deuteronomy 28:67 - In the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.
- Deuteronomy 28:68 - The Lord will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I said to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no one to buy you.”
- Psalms 107:34 - A productive land into a [barren] salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.