Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said,‘ Do not do this detestable thing that I hate!’

我从早起来差遣我的仆人众先知去说，你们切不要行我所厌恶这可憎之事。

我一再差遣我的仆人众先知去，说：你们切不可行我所厌恶这可憎之事。

我一再差遣我的仆人众先知去，说：你们切不可行我所厌恶这可憎之事。

我屡次差遣我的仆人——众先知警告他们不要再做令我深恶痛绝的事，

虽然我不断差遣我的仆人众先知到你们那里去，说：你们千万不可行我所恨恶，这可憎的事！

我從早起來差遣我的僕人眾先知去說，你們切不要行我所厭惡這可憎之事。

我一再差遣我的僕人眾先知去，說：你們切不可行我所厭惡這可憎之事。

我一再差遣我的僕人眾先知去，說：你們切不可行我所厭惡這可憎之事。

我屢次差遣我的僕人——眾先知警告他們不要再做令我深惡痛絕的事，

雖然我不斷差遣我的僕人眾先知到你們那裡去，說：你們千萬不可行我所恨惡，這可憎的事！

我差遣我的眾僕人眾神言人去找你們，又屢次又及時地差遣去說：「你們切不可行我所恨的這可厭惡之事。」

我遣我僕諸先知詣爾、夙興而遣之曰、噫、此可憎之事、我所疾者、爾勿行之、

我遣僕先知、誨爾諄諄不已、我所痛疾者、爾莫行之、

我屢屢原文作每晨遣我僕眾先知警教之云、此可憎之事、我所憾者、爾勿行之、

Again and again I sent my servants the prophets. They said,‘ Don’t worship other gods! The Lord hates it!’

Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying,‘ Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’

“ Again and again I sent my servants, the prophets, to plead with them,‘ Don’t do these horrible things that I hate so much.’

So I sent you all my servants the prophets time and time again, saying,‘ Don’t commit this detestable action that I hate.’

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying,“ Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate.”

However I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying,“ Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!”

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

So I sent you all My servants the prophets time and time again, saying: Don’t do this detestable thing that I hate.

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending[ them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

I sent my servants the prophets to you people over and over again warning you not to do this disgusting thing I hate.

However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying,“ Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”

and if you do not listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you again and again( though you have not listened),

From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets.

While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer.

The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place.

I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.”

Are these not the words the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?’”

For they have not listened to my words,” declares the Lord,“ words that I sent to them again and again by my servants the prophets. And you exiles have not listened either,” declares the Lord.

So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and unclean animals and all the idols of Israel.

They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children’s blood,

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do— living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.

For twenty-three years— from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day— the word of the Lord has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.And though the Lord has sent all his servants the prophets to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention.

The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.The name written on her forehead was a mystery: babylon the great the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth.

“ Therefore this is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says:‘ Listen! I am going to bring on Judah and on everyone living in Jerusalem every disaster I pronounced against them. I spoke to them, but they did not listen; I called to them, but they did not answer.’”