Jeremiah 6:13 Cross References - Rotherham

¹³ For, from the least of them, even unto the greatest of them, Every one, graspeth with greed,––And, from the prophet even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely;

⁷ But, as for these, With wine, do they reel, and, With strong drink, do they stagger,––Priest and prophet, reel with strong drink, They are swallowed up through wine, They stagger through strong drink, They reel in prophetic vision, They totter in pronouncing judgment.

⁹ All ye beasts of the field! come ye, to devour, All ye beasts in the forest. ¹⁰ His watchmen, are blind, None of them, know, All of them, are dumb dogs, they cannot bark,––Dreaming, sleeping, loving to slumber. ¹¹ And, the dogs, are greedy, they know not to be satisfied, Yea, they, are shepherds, who know not to discern,––All of them, unto their own way, have turned, Every man to his unjust gain, on every hand: ¹² Come ye! I will fetch wine, Let us fill ourselves with strong drink,––And, like this day, shall, tomorrow, be––Great beyond measure!

¹⁷ Because of his iniquitous gain, was I wroth––and smote him, Hiding myself that I might be wroth,––But he went on, turning aside in the way of his own heart.

⁸ The priests, said not, Where, is Yahweh? And, they who handled the law, did not acknowledge me, And, the shepherds, transgressed against me,––And, the prophets, prophesied by Baal, And so, after things that could not profit, did they walk.

²⁶ As the shame of a thief when he is found, So, hath been put to shame, the house of Israel,––They, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their, prophets:

³¹ The prophets, have prophesied, falsely, And, the priests, tread down, by their means, And, my people, love it, so,––What then can ye do, as to her latter end?

¹⁰ Therefore, will I give––Their wives to others, Their fields, to such as shall take possession of them, For, from the least, even unto the greatest, Every one, is, wholly given to extortion: From the prophet, even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely.

¹⁸ If I have gone out into the field, Then lo! the slain of the sword! And, if I have entered the city, Then lo! the diseases of famine! For, both prophet and priest, have trafficked against the land, unnoticed.

¹⁷ Verily thou hast neither eyes, nor heart, save for thy plundering and for thy shedding of, innocent blood, and for oppression and for crushing, to do, them!

¹¹ For, both prophet and priest, are profane,––Even in my house, have I found their wickedness, Declareth Yahweh.

¹⁴ But, among the prophets of Jerusalem, have I seen a horrible thing,––Committing adultery, And walking in falsehood, And so strengthening the hands of doers of wickedness, not to return any man from his wickedness: They have, all of them, become, to me, as Sodom, And her inhabitants, as Gomorrah. ¹⁵ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Concerning the prophets,––Behold me! Feeding them with wormwood, And I will cause them to drink poisoned water,––For, from the prophets of Jerusalem, hath there gone forth profanity unto all the land.

⁷ So the priests and the prophets, and all the people, heard, Jeremiah, speaking these words in the house of Yahweh. ⁸ And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded [him] to speak unto all the people, that the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, laid hold of him, saying––Thou shalt, surely die!

³² because of all the wickedness of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

¹³ [It is] for the sins of her prophets, the iniquities of her priests,––who have been pouring out, in her midst, the blood of the righteous!

¹² Bribes, have they accepted in thee, For the sake of shedding blood,––Interest and increase, hast thou accepted, And thou hast overreached thy neighbour, by oppression, And, me, hast thou forgotten, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

²⁵ Because, her princes in her midst, are like a roaring lion, rending prey,––Life, have they devoured, Wealth and precious things, have they been wont to take, Her widows, have they multiplied in her midst. ²⁶ Her priests, have done violence to my law, And have profaned my holy things, Between the hallowed and the common, have they put no difference, And, between the unclean and clean, have they not taught men to discern,––And, from my sabbaths, have they hid their eyes, So that I have been profaned in their midst. ²⁷ Her rulers within her, have been like wolves, rending prey,––In shedding blood, In destroying lives, For the sake of getting dishonest gain. ²⁸ And, her prophets, have coated it for them with whitewash, Seeing visions of falsehood, And divining for them lies,––Saying, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, when, Yahweh, hath not spoken.

³¹ That they may come unto thee as people do, come, And may sit before thee, [as] my people, And they will hear thy words, But, the words themselves, will they not do,––though, fond with their mouths, they, seem to be, After their unjust gain, their heart, is going.

¹ Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds,––in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand. ² Thus do they covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them away,––and so they oppress the master and his household, the man and his inheritance.

² Ye haters of right, and lovers of wrong,––tearing away their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who indeed have eaten the flesh of my people, and, their skin from off them, have stript, and, their bones, have they broken in pieces,––and will spread them out, as flesh with a fork, and as flesh, in the midst of a pot.

⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh, concerning the prophets who are leading astray my people,––who bite with their teeth, and then cry––Prosper! and whoso holdeth not to their mouth, they hallow against him a war!

¹¹ Her heads, for a bribe, pronounce sentence, and, her priests, for a price, give direction, and, her prophets, for silver, divine,––yet, on Yahweh, they lean, saying, Is not, Yahweh, in our midst? there shall not come upon us, calamity.

³ Her rulers in her midst, are roaring lions,––her judges, evening wolves, they have left nothing until morning! ⁴ Her prophets, are reckless, treacherous men! her priests, have profaned the holy, done violence to law.

¹⁴ Now the Pharisees, who were, lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were openly sneering at him.

³ Not given to wine, not ready to wound, but considerate, averse to contention, not fond of money,

³ And, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.

¹⁴ Having, eyes, full of an adulteress, and that cannot rest from sin, enticing unstable souls, having, a heart trained in greed,––children of a curse,–– ¹⁵ Forsaking a straight path, they have gone astray, following out the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved, a reward of wrong,