Jeremiah 44:25 Cross References - Rotherham

²⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives, have both spoken with your mouth and, with your hands, have ye fulfilled, saying, We will, certainly perform, our vows which we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her, drink–offerings: the women, will certainly confirm, your vows, and, certainly perform, your vows.

²² No darkness, and no death–shade, where the workers of iniquity may hide.

¹⁵ Because ye have said––We have solemnised a covenant with death, And, with hades, have we effected a vision,––The overflowing scourge, when it sweepeth by, shall not reach unto us, For we have made lying, our refuge, And, in falsehood, have we hid ourselves.

¹⁵ Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other, gods, and all the women standing by, a great convocation,––with all the people who were dwelling in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, made answer unto Jeremiah, saying: ¹⁶ As touching the word which thou hast spoken unto us, in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to hearken unto thee; ¹⁷ but, we will certainly do, the whole thing that hath gone forth out of our own mouth, by burning incense to the queen of the heavens, and pouring out to her drink–offerings, just as, we and our fathers, and our kings and our princes, did, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,––then were we filled with bread, and became prosperous, and, calamity, saw we none; ¹⁸ whereas, from the very time we ceased burning incense to the queen of the heavens and pouring out to her drink–offerings, we have lacked, everything,––and, by sword and by famine, have we been consumed. ¹⁹ And, though we, are burning incense to the queen of the heavens and pouring out to her, drink–offerings, is it, without our men, that we have made to her sacrificial cakes as images of her, and poured out to her, drink–offerings?

³⁹ But, as for you, O house of Israel, Thus, saith my Lord, Yahweh, Go, serve, every man, his own manufactured gods, Yet, afterwards, surely, Ye shall be ready to hearken unto me,––And, my holy name, shall ye profane no more, With your gifts, and, With your manufactured gods.

⁹ And the king, though grieved, yet, because of the oaths and the guests, ordered it to be given;

¹² And, when it became day, the Jews, forming a conspiracy, bound themselves under a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had slain Paul. ¹³ And they were, more than forty, who, this sworn–confederacy, had formed. ¹⁴ And they went unto the High–priests and Elders, and said––With a curse have we bound ourselves, to taste, nothing, until we have slain Paul. ¹⁵ Now, therefore, do, ye, with the High–council, make it appear unto the captain, that he should bring him down unto you, as though about to ascertain more exactly the things that concern him; and, we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.

¹⁴ But, each one, is tempted, when, by his own coveting, he is drawn out and enticed, ¹⁵ Then, the coveting, having conceived, giveth birth to sin, and, the sin, when full–grown, bringeth forth death.

¹³ Wild waves of sea, foaming out their own infamies, wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness age–abiding hath been reserved.