Parallel Verses
- English Standard Version - How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
- 新标点和合本 - 可叹，忠信的城变为妓女！ 从前充满了公平， 公义居在其中， 现今却有凶手居住。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 忠信的城竟然变为妓女！ 从前充满了公平， 公义居在其中， 现今却有凶手居住。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 忠信的城竟然变为妓女！ 从前充满了公平， 公义居在其中， 现今却有凶手居住。
- 当代译本 - 忠信的城竟变成了妓女！ 从前充满公平， 是公义之家， 现在却住着凶手。
- 圣经新译本 - 那忠贞的城，怎么会变成妓女！ 她从前充满公平， 有公义居在其中， 现在却有凶手居住。
- 中文标准译本 - 忠信的城竟然变为妓女！ 这城从前充满公正， 有公义居于其中， 现在却只有杀人凶手。
- 现代标点和合本 - 可叹忠信的城变为妓女！ 从前充满了公平， 公义居在其中， 现今却有凶手居住！
- 和合本（拼音版） - 可叹忠信的城变为妓女。 从前充满了公平， 公义居在其中， 现今却有凶手居住。
- New International Version - See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but now murderers!
- New International Reader's Version - See how the faithful city of Jerusalem has become like a prostitute! Once it was full of people who treated others fairly. Those who did what was right used to live in it. But now murderers live there!
- New Living Translation - See how Jerusalem, once so faithful, has become a prostitute. Once the home of justice and righteousness, she is now filled with murderers.
- The Message - Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city has become a whore! She was once all justice, everyone living as good neighbors, And now they’re all at one another’s throats. Your coins are all counterfeits. Your wine is watered down. Your leaders are turncoats who keep company with crooks. They sell themselves to the highest bidder and grab anything not nailed down. They never stand up for the homeless, never stick up for the defenseless.
- Christian Standard Bible - The faithful town — what an adulteress she has become! She was once full of justice. Righteousness once dwelt in her, but now, murderers!
- New American Standard Bible - How the faithful city has become a prostitute, She who was full of justice! Righteousness once dwelt in her, But now murderers.
- New King James Version - How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers.
- Amplified Bible - How the faithful city has become a prostitute [idolatrous, despicable], She who was full of justice! Right standing with God once lodged in her, But now murderers.
- American Standard Version - How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
- King James Version - How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
- New English Translation - How tragic that the once-faithful city has become a prostitute! She was once a center of justice, fairness resided in her, but now only murderers.
- World English Bible - How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.
- 新標點和合本 - 可歎，忠信的城變為妓女！ 從前充滿了公平， 公義居在其中， 現今卻有兇手居住。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 忠信的城竟然變為妓女！ 從前充滿了公平， 公義居在其中， 現今卻有兇手居住。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 忠信的城竟然變為妓女！ 從前充滿了公平， 公義居在其中， 現今卻有兇手居住。
- 當代譯本 - 忠信的城竟變成了妓女！ 從前充滿公平， 是公義之家， 現在卻住著兇手。
- 聖經新譯本 - 那忠貞的城，怎麼會變成妓女！ 她從前充滿公平， 有公義居在其中， 現在卻有兇手居住。
- 呂振中譯本 - 怎麼啦！她竟變為妓女啊！ 從前忠信可靠的都市， 充滿了公平， 有公義居於其中， 如今竟為兇手 所住 了！
- 中文標準譯本 - 忠信的城竟然變為妓女！ 這城從前充滿公正， 有公義居於其中， 現在卻只有殺人凶手。
- 現代標點和合本 - 可嘆忠信的城變為妓女！ 從前充滿了公平， 公義居在其中， 現今卻有凶手居住！
- 文理和合譯本 - 噫、忠信之邑、變為妓矣、昔盈公正、義處其中、今則殺人者居焉、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 爾邑自古以來、風俗敦龐、以迄於今、漸流於淫靡矣。昔也行仁義者居之、茲也嗜殺人者處之。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 可歎斯邑昔為忠信、今成如妓、昔公平充盈其中、善義託處其間、今則殺人者居之、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - ¡Cómo se ha prostituido la ciudad fiel! Antes estaba llena de justicia. La rectitud moraba en ella, pero ahora solo quedan asesinos.
- 현대인의 성경 - 신실하던 성이 어째서 창녀처럼 되었는가! 한때는 정의와 진리를 사랑하는 자들로 가득하더니 이제는 살인자들뿐이구나.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Как же это стала блудницей некогда верная столица! Она была полна правосудия, обитала в ней правда, а теперь вот – убийцы!
- Восточный перевод - Как же это стала блудницей некогда верная столица?! Она была полна правосудия, обитала в ней правда, а теперь вот – убийцы!
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Как же это стала блудницей некогда верная столица?! Она была полна правосудия, обитала в ней правда, а теперь вот – убийцы!
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Как же это стала блудницей некогда верная столица?! Она была полна правосудия, обитала в ней правда, а теперь вот – убийцы!
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Jérusalem ! Comment se fait-il donc ╵que la cité fidèle soit devenue ╵une prostituée ? Toi, jadis pleine de droiture, où la justice demeurait, maintenant, tu abrites ╵des assassins.
- リビングバイブル - エルサレムよ。 一度はわたしの貞淑な妻であったおまえが、 今では娼婦になり下がり、 ほかの神々に夢中になっている。 一度は『紳士の都』と呼ばれたのに、 今では人殺しのならず者だ。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Vejam como a cidade fiel se tornou prostituta! Antes cheia de justiça e habitada pela retidão, agora está cheia de assassinos!
- Hoffnung für alle - Ach, Jerusalem, früher warst du deinem Gott treu, jetzt aber bist du zur Hure geworden. Damals ging es in der Stadt gerecht und redlich zu. Und heute? Heute herrschen dort Mord und Totschlag!
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Hãy nhìn Giê-ru-sa-lem, xưa là thành trung tín và công chính, nay là thành của lũ mãi dâm và sát nhân.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ดูเถิด นครที่ซื่อสัตย์ กลับกลายเป็นหญิงแพศยา! ครั้งหนึ่งเธอเคยเปี่ยมด้วยความยุติธรรม ความชอบธรรมเคยมีอยู่ในเธอ แต่บัดนี้มีแต่ฆาตกร!
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เมืองที่ภักดีกลายเป็น เมืองแพศยาได้อย่างไร นางเคยเปี่ยมด้วยความเป็นธรรม ความชอบธรรมอยู่ในตัวนาง แต่บัดนี้กลับกลายเป็นฆาตกร
Cross Reference
- Jeremiah 3:1 - “If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
- Lamentations 1:8 - Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.
- Lamentations 1:9 - Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is terrible; she has no comforter. “O Lord, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!”
- Psalms 46:4 - There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
- Ezekiel 16:1 - Again the word of the Lord came to me:
- Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
- Ezekiel 16:3 - and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
- Ezekiel 16:4 - And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
- Ezekiel 16:5 - No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.
- Ezekiel 16:6 - “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’
- Ezekiel 16:7 - I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 16:8 - “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.
- Ezekiel 16:9 - Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.
- Ezekiel 16:10 - I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
- Ezekiel 16:11 - And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
- Ezekiel 16:12 - And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
- Ezekiel 16:13 - Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.
- Ezekiel 16:14 - And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 16:15 - “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.
- Ezekiel 16:16 - You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.
- Ezekiel 16:17 - You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.
- Ezekiel 16:18 - And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
- Ezekiel 16:19 - Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 16:20 - And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter
- Ezekiel 16:21 - that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
- Ezekiel 16:22 - And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
- Ezekiel 16:23 - “And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God),
- Ezekiel 16:24 - you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.
- Ezekiel 16:25 - At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
- Ezekiel 16:26 - You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.
- Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
- Ezekiel 16:28 - You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.
- Ezekiel 16:29 - You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.
- Ezekiel 16:30 - “How sick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,
- Ezekiel 16:31 - building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
- Ezekiel 16:32 - Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
- Ezekiel 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.
- Ezekiel 16:34 - So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.
- Ezekiel 16:35 - “Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord:
- Ezekiel 16:36 - Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
- Ezekiel 16:37 - therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
- Ezekiel 16:38 - And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
- Ezekiel 16:39 - And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 16:40 - They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
- Ezekiel 16:41 - And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.
- Ezekiel 16:42 - So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.
- Ezekiel 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
- Ezekiel 16:44 - “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
- Ezekiel 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
- Ezekiel 16:46 - And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
- Ezekiel 16:47 - Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
- Ezekiel 16:48 - As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
- Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
- Ezekiel 16:50 - They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.
- Ezekiel 16:51 - Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.
- Ezekiel 16:52 - Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
- Ezekiel 16:53 - “I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst,
- Ezekiel 16:54 - that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them.
- Ezekiel 16:55 - As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
- Ezekiel 16:56 - Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,
- Ezekiel 16:57 - before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.
- Ezekiel 16:58 - You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the Lord.
- Ezekiel 16:59 - “For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,
- Ezekiel 16:60 - yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
- Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.
- Ezekiel 16:62 - I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,
- Ezekiel 16:63 - that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”
- Ezekiel 22:1 - And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 22:2 - “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
- Ezekiel 22:3 - You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!
- Ezekiel 22:4 - You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.
- Ezekiel 22:5 - Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; your name is defiled; you are full of tumult.
- Ezekiel 22:6 - “Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.
- Ezekiel 22:7 - Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.
- Ezekiel 22:8 - You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.
- Ezekiel 22:9 - There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.
- Ezekiel 22:10 - In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity.
- Ezekiel 22:11 - One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
- Ezekiel 22:12 - In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 22:13 - “Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst.
- Ezekiel 22:14 - Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.
- Ezekiel 22:15 - I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
- Ezekiel 22:16 - And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
- Ezekiel 22:17 - And the word of the Lord came to me:
- Ezekiel 22:18 - “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver.
- Ezekiel 22:19 - Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 22:20 - As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.
- Ezekiel 22:21 - I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 22:22 - As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord; I have poured out my wrath upon you.”
- Ezekiel 22:23 - And the word of the Lord came to me:
- Isaiah 5:7 - For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
- Jeremiah 2:20 - “For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, ‘I will not serve.’ Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.
- Jeremiah 2:21 - Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
- Nehemiah 11:1 - Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns.
- Acts 7:52 - Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
- Psalms 48:1 - Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,
- Zechariah 8:3 - Thus says the Lord: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.
- Isaiah 57:3 - But you, draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.
- Isaiah 57:4 - Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,
- Isaiah 57:5 - you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- Isaiah 57:6 - Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they, are your lot; to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a grain offering. Shall I relent for these things?
- Isaiah 57:7 - On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.
- Isaiah 57:8 - Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your memorial; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a covenant for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness.
- Isaiah 57:9 - You journeyed to the king with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol.
- Hosea 11:12 - Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
- Hebrews 12:22 - But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
- Luke 13:34 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
- Zephaniah 3:1 - Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!
- Zephaniah 3:2 - She listens to no voice; she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the Lord; she does not draw near to her God.
- Zephaniah 3:3 - Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
- Revelation 11:2 - but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
- Isaiah 48:2 - For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name.
- Psalms 48:8 - As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah
- 2 Samuel 8:15 - So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
- 2 Chronicles 19:9 - And he charged them: “Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:
- Revelation 11:8 - and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
- Micah 3:2 - you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,
- Micah 3:3 - who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron.