Jeremiah 7:9 Cross References - Rotherham

⁹ Are ye to steal, commit murder, and commit adultery, and swear, falsely, and burn incense unto Baal,––and walk after other gods, whom ye have not known;

³ Thou shalt not have other gods, besides me.

¹⁷ They sacrificed to mischievous demons, to a No–GOD, Gods whom they knew not,––New ones lately come in, Your fathers never shuddered at them!

⁸ They chose gods that were new, Then,––war at the gates! Was there, a shield, to be seen? or a spear? among forty thousand in Israel?

²¹ And Elijah drew near unto all the people, and said––How long are ye limping on the two divided opinions? If, Yahweh, be GOD, follow, him, but, if, Baal, follow, him. But the people answered him, not a word.

¹⁶ But, to the lawless one, God saith, What hast, thou, to do, to recount my statutes? Or that thou hast taken up my covenant upon thy mouth? ¹⁷ Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee; ¹⁸ If thou sawest a thief, then didst thou run with him,––And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life; ¹⁹ Thy mouth, hast thou thrust into wickedness, And, thy tongue, kept weaving deceit; ²⁰ Thou wouldst sit down––Against thine own brother, wouldst thou speak, Against thine own mother’s son, wouldst thou expose a fault:–– ²¹ These things, hast thou done, and I have kept silence, Thou thoughtest that I should really be like thyself, I will convict thee, yea I will set [thine offences] in order before thine eyes.

¹ Lo! the hand of Yahweh is not too short, to save,––Neither is his ear too heavy, to hear. ² But, your iniquities, have become separators betwixt you and your God, And, your sins, have caused a hiding of face from you, that he should not hear. ³ For, your hands, are defiled with blood, And, your fingers, with iniquity,––Your lips, have spoken falsehood, and, Your tongue, muttereth, perversity. ⁴ None, sueth in righteousness, and, None, pleadeth in faithfulness,––Men are trusting in confusion, And speaking vanity, Conceiving wickedness, And bringing forth iniquity: ⁵ Viper’s eggs, do they hatch, Spider’s threads, do they weave,––He that eateth of their eggs, dieth, And, that which is crushed, bringeth forth an adder; ⁶ Their threads, shall not become a garment, Neither shall they cover themselves with their fabrics,––Their fabrics, are fabrics of iniquity, Yea, the product of violence, is in their hands; ⁷ Their feet, to mischief, do run, And they speed to shed innocent blood,––Their devices, are devices of iniquity, Wasting and destruction, are in their high roads; ⁸ The way of well–being, have they not known, And there is no justice in their tracks,––Their paths, have they made crooked for themselves, None, who treadeth therein, knoweth well––being.

⁶ The sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, shall not oppress, And, innocent blood, shall not shed in this place,––And, after other gods, shall not walk, to your own hurt,

² Oh that I had in the wilderness, a wayfarers’ lodge, That I might leave my people, and go from them,––For, they all, are, Adulterers, An assemblage of traitors; ³ Who have prepared their tongue as their bow of falsehood, And, not by faithfulness, have they become mighty in the land,––For, from wickedness unto wickedness, have they gone forth, But, me, have they not known, Declareth Yahweh. ⁴ Every one, of his neighbour, beware ye, And, in no brother, may ye trust,––For, every brother, supplanteth! And, every neighbour, as a tale–bearer, goeth about; ⁵ Yea, every one, of his neighbour, maketh a dupe, And, truth, they do not speak,––They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, In acting perversely, they have wearied themselves. ⁶ Thy dwelling, is in the midst of deceit,––Through deceit, have they rejected the knowledge of, me, Declareth Yahweh. ⁷ Therefore, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Behold me! melting them, so will I try them,––For, how else should I do, because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people? ⁸ A pointed arrow, is their tongue, Deceit, hath it spoken,––With his mouth, peace unto his neighbour, doth one speak, But, within himself, he layeth his ambush. ⁹ For these things, shall I not bring punishment on them? Demandeth Yahweh,––On a nation such as this, must not my soul avenge herself!

¹³ for, according to the number of thy cities, have become thy gods, O Judah,––and, according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem, have ye set up altars to the Shameful thing, altars for burning incense to Baal.

¹⁷ But, Yahweh of hosts, who planted thee, hath pronounced against thee, calamity,––on account of the wickedness of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves, provoking me to anger by burning incense to Baal.

¹⁰ This wicked people, who are refusing to hear my words, who are walking in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow down to them, yea let them be like this girdle, which is good for nothing.

²⁹ And the Chaldeans, who are fighting against this city, Shall enter, and, Shall set this city on fire, and, Shall consume it,––With the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to Baal, and poured out drink–offerings to other, gods, that they might provoke me to anger;

³ because of their wickedness, which they committed, provoking me to anger, by going to burn incense, to serve other, gods,––whom they had not known, they, ye, nor your fathers;

¹⁰ But he hath begotten a son, Who is a violent man, A shedder of blood,––Who doeth the like of any of these things; ¹¹ Whereas, he, none of those other things, doeth, For indeed, upon the mountains, he hath eaten, And, the wife of his neighbour, hath defiled; ¹² The oppressed and the needy, hath treated with violence, Hath ruthlessly plundered, The pledge, hath not restored, But, unto the manufactured gods, hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination, hath wrought; ¹³ Upon interest, hath put out, And, increase, hath accepted,––And shall he, live? He shall not live, All these abominations, he hath done, He shall, surely be put to death, His blood, upon himself, shall be.

¹⁸ His father, Because he exacted unjust gain, Seized plunder of a brother, And, that which was not good, had done in the midst of his people, Therefore lo! he died, in his iniquity.

²⁵ Wherefore, say unto them, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, With the blood, ye do eat, And, your eyes, ye do lift up unto your manufactured gods, And, blood, ye do shed; And, the land, shall ye inherit? ²⁶ Ye men have taken your stand by your sword, Ye women have wrought abomination, And, every man––with the wife of his neighbour, have ye defiled yourselves; And, the land, shall ye inherit?

¹ Hear the word of Yahweh, ye sons of Israel,––that, a controversy, hath Yahweh with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no faithfulness, nor lovingkindness, nor knowledge of God, in the land: ² Cursing and lying, and killing and stealing, and committing adultery, have broken forth, and, blood–shedding, unto blood–shedding, doth extend. ³ For this cause, shall the land mourn, and everyone who dwelleth therein shall languish, with the wild beast of the field and with the bird of the heavens,––moreover also, the fishes of the sea, shall be withdrawn.

⁸ But, in very deed, I, am full of vigour, with the spirit of Yahweh, and of justice and of valour,––to declare to Jacob, his transgression, and to Israel, his sin. ⁹ Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel,––who abhor justice, and, all right, do pervert: ¹⁰ Building Zion, with deeds of blood,––and Jerusalem, with perversity. 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. ¹² Wherefore, for your sake, Zion, as a field, shall be ploughed, and, Jerusalem, unto heaps of ruins, shall be turned,––and, the mountain of the house, shall [be] like mounds in a jungle.

⁵ And them who bow down upon the housetops to the host of the heavens,––and them who bow down––who swear to Yahweh, and swear by Milcom;

³ Then said he unto me, This, is the curse, which is going forth over the face of all the earth,––Because, every one who stealeth, on the one side, hath in one way been let off, and, every one who sweareth, on the other side, hath in another way been let off, ⁴ [therefore] have I brought it forth, Declareth Yahweh of hosts, And it shall enter––into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth by my name, falsely,––and it shall roost in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, both the timbers thereof, and the stones thereof.

⁵ Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood,––and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh of hosts.

² We know, however, that, the sentence of God, is according to truth against them who, such things as these, do practise.

¹⁷ If, however, thou, art taking the name of Jew, and resting thyself upon law, and boasting in God, ¹⁸ And art taking note of his will, and testing the things that differ––when receiving oral instruction out of the law, ¹⁹ Art persuaded, moreover, that, thou thyself, art––a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, ²⁰ A trainer of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the forming of knowledge and truth in the law,–– ²¹ Thou, therefore, that art teaching someone else, thyself, art thou not teaching? Thou that proclaimest––Do not steal! Art thou, stealing? ²² That sayest––Do not commit adultery! Art thou, committing adultery? That abhorrest sacrilege, Art thou, robbing temples? ²³ That in law dost boast, Through the transgression of the law, art thou dishonouring God? ²⁴ For the name of God, because of you, is defamed among the nations,––even as it is written. ²⁵ For, circumcision, indeed, profiteth––if, law, thou be practising; but, if thou be a transgressor of law, thy circumcision, hath become, uncircumcision ²⁶ If then, the uncircumcision, be guarding the righteous requirement of the law, shall not, his uncircumcision, as circumcision be reckoned?–– ²⁷ And the uncircumcision by nature, completing the law, shall judge, thee, who, notwithstanding letter and circumcision, art a transgressor of law! ²⁸ For, not he who is one in appearance, is a Jew, nor is, that which is such in appearance in flesh, circumcision; ²⁹ But, he who is one in secret, is a Jew,––and, [that is], circumcision, which is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter,––whose, praise, is not of men, but of God.

⁹ Or know ye not that, wrong–doers, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves:––neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners––shall inherit, God’s kingdom.

¹⁹ Manifest, however, are the works of the flesh, which, indeed, are––fornication, impurity, wantonness, ²⁰ idolatry, enchantment, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of wrath, factions, divisions, parties, ²¹ envyings, drunkenness, revellings; ––and such things as these: as to which I forewarn you, even as I have forewarned you,––that, they who such things as these do practise, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom.

⁵ For, this, ye know, if ye take note––that no fornicator, or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one be deceiving you with empty words; for, because of these things, is coming the anger of God upon the sons of obstinacy: ⁷ Do not, then, become co–partners with them;

² For men will be––fond of themselves, fond of money, ostentatious, arrogant, defamers, to parents, unyielding, unthankful, unkind, ³ without natural affection, accepting no truce, given to intrigue, without self–control, uncivilized, unfriendly to good men, ⁴ traitors, reckless, beclouded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of godliness, but, the power thereof, denying! and, from these, turn away;

¹ Whence wars and whence fightings among you? are they not from hence––due to your pleasures which are taking the field in your members? ² Ye covet––and have not, ye commit murder, and are jealous––and cannot obtain,––ye fight and war. Ye have not––because ye do not really ask, ³ Ye ask and receive not, because that, basely, ye ask, in order that, in your pleasures, ye may spend [it]. ⁴ Adulteresses! Know ye not that, the friendship of the world, is, enmity to God? Whosoever, therefore, is minded to be, a friend, of the world, an enemy of God, doth constitute himself.

⁸ But, as for the timid, and disbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part, is in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone,––which is the second death.

¹⁵ Outside, are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the unchaste, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one loving and doing falsehood.