Indeed, O LORD, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around.

耶和华，你离弃了你百姓雅各家，是因他们充满了东方的风俗，作观兆的，像非利士人一样，并与外邦人击掌。

你离弃了你的百姓雅各家，因为他们充满了东方的习俗，又像非利士人一样观星象，并与外邦人击掌。

你离弃了你的百姓雅各家，因为他们充满了东方的习俗，又像非利士人一样观星象，并与外邦人击掌。

耶和华啊，你离弃了你的子民——雅各的后裔，因为他们当中充满了东方的恶俗，像非利士人一样占卜，跟外族人同流合污。

耶和华啊！你离弃了你的子民雅各家，是因为他们充满了东方的迷信，和占卜的人，像非利士人一样，并且与外族人击掌交易。

耶和华啊，你撇弃了你的子民雅各家，因为他们中充斥着来自东方的恶俗，以及非利士人那样的占兆者；他们还与外邦人击掌订交。

耶和華，你離棄了你百姓雅各家，是因他們充滿了東方的風俗，作觀兆的，像非利士人一樣，並與外邦人擊掌。

你離棄了你的百姓雅各家，因為他們充滿了東方的習俗，又像非利士人一樣觀星象，並與外邦人擊掌。

你離棄了你的百姓雅各家，因為他們充滿了東方的習俗，又像非利士人一樣觀星象，並與外邦人擊掌。

耶和華啊，你離棄了你的子民——雅各的後裔，因為他們當中充滿了東方的惡俗，像非利士人一樣占卜，跟外族人同流合污。

耶和華啊！你離棄了你的子民雅各家，是因為他們充滿了東方的迷信，和占卜的人，像非利士人一樣，並且與外族人擊掌交易。

因為他擯棄了他的人民，是因為他們充滿了占筮和算命、像非利士人一樣，並且跟外族人拍掌交易。

耶和華啊，你撇棄了你的子民雅各家，因為他們中充斥著來自東方的惡俗，又像非利士人那樣充斥著算命者；他們還與外族人擊掌訂交。

蓋爾民雅各家、充乎東方之俗、效非利士人為巫覡、且與異邦結盟、故爾棄之、

維昔雅各家、與異邦修睦、惟尚術數、較諸非利士人、東方之民、初無或異、故上帝棄之。

主棄主之民雅各家、因東方人之惡俗、充滿其中、尚術數如非利士人、與異邦之人結盟、結盟原文作擊掌

You, Lord, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs.

Lord, you have deserted the people of Jacob. They are your people. The land is full of false beliefs from the east. The people practice evil magic, just as the Philistines do. They do what ungodly people do.

For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

For the Lord has rejected his people, the descendants of Jacob, because they have filled their land with practices from the East and with sorcerers, as the Philistines do. They have made alliances with pagans.

For you have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of divination from the East and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They are in league with foreigners.

For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers like the Philistines. They also strike bargains with the children of foreigners.

For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways; They are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they are pleased with the children of foreigners.

For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of divination from the East and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They are in league with foreigners.

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and[ are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

Granted! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear!

Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders,“ Go, ask Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.”

So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Then the LORD said to Moses,“ You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time,‘ Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?’

“‘ The person who turns to the spirits of the dead and familiar spirits to commit prostitution by going after them, I will set my face against that person and cut him off from the midst of his people.

Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits to become unclean by them. I am the LORD your God.

They will say to you,“ Seek oracles at the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, from the magicians who chirp and mutter incantations. Should people not seek oracles from their gods, by asking the dead about the destiny of the living?”

So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD and did not obey the LORD’s instructions; he even tried to conjure up underworld spirits.

“ You must not allow a sorceress to live.

and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.

He met Asa and told him,“ Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are loyal to him. If you seek him, he will respond to you, but if you reject him, he will reject you.

The LORD says,“ Do not start following pagan religious practices. Do not be in awe of signs that occur in the sky even though the nations hold them in awe.

When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women( besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.They came from nations about which the LORD had warned the Israelites,“ You must not establish friendly relations with them! If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them.

Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful– maybe you will scare away disaster.You are tired out from listening to so much advice. Let them take their stand– the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make monthly predictions– let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you!

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer.Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is about to drive them out from before you.You must be blameless before the LORD your God.Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the LORD your God has not given you permission to do such things.

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying,“ Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying,‘ Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’

They mixed in with the nations and learned their ways.

Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, and have become a guarantor for a stranger,

God’s Spirit energized Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them,“ This is what God says:‘ Why are you violating the commands of the LORD? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the LORD, he has rejected you!’”

Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying,“ I am your servant and your dependent. March up and rescue me from the power of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked me.”Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were in the LORD’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute to the king of Assyria.

if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife.