Isaiah 1:21 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 murd...

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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.
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!
English Standard Version - How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
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.
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

交叉引用

Jeremiah 3:1 - That is to say, “If a man divorces his wife And she goes [away] from him And becomes another man’s [wife], Will he return to her again? [Of course not!] Will not that land [where such a thing happened] be completely desecrated? But you [rebelled against Me and you] are a prostitute with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me.” says the Lord.
Lamentations 1:8 - Jerusalem sinned greatly; Therefore she has become an unclean thing [and has been removed]. All who honored her [now] despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Even she herself groans and turns [her face] away.
Lamentations 1:9 - Her (ceremonial) uncleanness was on her skirts; She did not [seriously] consider her future. Therefore she has come down [from throne to slavery] in an astonishing manner; She has no comforter. “O Lord” [cries Jerusalem], “look at my affliction, For the enemy has magnified himself [in triumph]!”
Psalms 46:4 - There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.
Ezekiel 16:1 - Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, make Jerusalem understand [the heinous and vile nature of] her repulsive (idolatrous) acts
Ezekiel 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem (all of Israel), “Your [spiritual] origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your [spiritual] father was an Amorite and your [spiritual] mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4 - And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing, nor were you rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
Ezekiel 16:5 - No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out in the open field, for you were loathed on the day that you were born.
Ezekiel 16:6 - “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your [newborn] blood, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’
Ezekiel 16:7 - I made you (Israel) multiply like plants [which grow] in the field, and you grew up and became tall and you reached the age for [wearing] fine jewelry; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8 - “Then I passed by you [again] and looked on you; behold, you were maturing and at the time for love, and I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore [an oath] to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord God, “and you became Mine.”
Ezekiel 16:9 - “Then I washed you with water; yes, I [thoroughly] washed away from you the [clinging] blood and anointed you with oil.
Ezekiel 16:10 - I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
Ezekiel 16:11 - I adorned you with ornaments and I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.
Ezekiel 16:12 - I also put a ring in your nostril 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 dress was [made] of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; so you were extremely beautiful and you advanced and prospered into royalty.
Ezekiel 16:14 - Then your fame went out among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My majesty and splendor which I bestowed on you,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:15 - “But you trusted in and relied on your beauty and prostituted yourself [in idolatry and its debauched rituals] because of your fame, and you poured out your immoralities on every [willing] passer-by and your beauty was his [as you worshiped the idols of the Gentile nations].
Ezekiel 16:16 - You took some of your clothes and made for yourself [decorated] high places and shrines of various colors and prostituted yourself on them—things which should never have come about and taken place.
Ezekiel 16:17 - You also took your beautiful jewels and beautiful vessels made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men so that you could prostitute yourself with them;
Ezekiel 16:18 - and you took your embroidered clothing and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.
Ezekiel 16:19 - Also My bread which I gave you, [made from the] fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, you even offered it before idols [no better than cow dung] as a sweet and soothing aroma; so it happened,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:20 - “Moreover, you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to Me, and you destroyed them as sacrifices [to your man-made gods]. Were your gross immoralities so small a matter?
Ezekiel 16:21 - You slaughtered My children and offered them up to [worthless] idols, forcing them to pass through the [hideousness of the] fire.
Ezekiel 16:22 - And in all your repulsive acts and prostitutions (idolatrous immoralities) you did not [pause to] remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, squirming in your [newborn] blood.
Ezekiel 16:23 - “Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God),
Ezekiel 16:24 - that you built yourself an altar for prostitution and made yourself a high place [for ritual prostitution] in every square [of Jerusalem].
Ezekiel 16:25 - At the beginning of every street you built your high place and made your beauty repulsive; and you offered your body to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene immorality.
Ezekiel 16:26 - You also prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors [by embracing their pagan rituals], and you multiplied your obscene immorality to provoke Me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold now [listen very carefully], I have stretched out My hand against you, reduced your portion, and handed you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your infamous behavior.
Ezekiel 16:28 - You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you prostituted yourself with them and still were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29 - Moreover, you increased your obscene immorality with the land of tradesmen, Chaldea (Babylonia), and yet even with this you were not satisfied.” ’ ”
Ezekiel 16:30 - “How weakened by longing and lust is your heart (mind),” says the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold and brazen prostitute.
Ezekiel 16:31 - When you built your shrine altar for prostitution at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, you were not like a prostitute because you refused payment.
Ezekiel 16:32 - You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, bribing the pagan nations to come to you [as allies] from every direction for your obscene immoralities.
Ezekiel 16:34 - And you are different from other [unfaithful] women in your promiscuity, in that no one follows you to lure you into prostitution, and because you give money and no money is given you; in this way you are different.”
Ezekiel 16:35 - Therefore, O prostitute [Israel], hear the word of the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:36 - Thus says the Lord God, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene immoralities with your lovers (pagan allies), and with all your [repulsive] idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to them,
Ezekiel 16:37 - therefore, listen, I will gather all your lovers (pagan allies) with whom you took pleasure, and all those whom you loved with all those whom you hated; I will even gather them against you from every direction and will expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness [making you, Israel, an object of loathing and of mockery, a spectacle among the nations].
Ezekiel 16:38 - And I [the Lord God] will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezekiel 16:39 - I will also hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and they will leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:40 - They will also incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and slaughter you with their swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 - They will burn down your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women (Gentile nations). Then I will make you cease your prostitution, and you will no longer hire your lovers.
Ezekiel 16:42 - So I will calm My wrath toward you and My jealousy [resulting from being denied what is rightfully and uniquely mine] will turn away from you; I will be pacified and no longer angry.
Ezekiel 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me with all these things, therefore, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head,” says the Lord God, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other repulsive acts.
Ezekiel 16:44 - “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Ezekiel 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. You are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your [spiritual] mother was a Hittite and your [spiritual] father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 - Now your older sister is Samaria, she with her daughters (outlying cities) who live north of you; and your younger sister is Sodom, she with her daughters who live south of you.
Ezekiel 16:47 - Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or behaved in accordance with their pagan practices; but, as if that were too little, you [soon] acted more corruptly in all your ways than they.
Ezekiel 16:48 - As I live,” says the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters (outlying cities) had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:50 - They were haughty and committed repulsive acts before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.
Ezekiel 16:51 - Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, but you have greatly increased your repulsive acts more than they. So you have made your [wicked] sisters [Samaria and Sodom] appear righteous and justified by [comparison to] all the disgusting things which you have done.
Ezekiel 16:52 - Also bear your disgrace [as punishment], having made judgment favorable for your sisters, for [you virtually absolved them] because of your sins in which you behaved more repulsively than they; they are more in the right than you. Yes, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you made your [pagan] sisters seem righteous.
Ezekiel 16:53 - “Nevertheless, I will restore them [again] from their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters (outlying cities), the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them [I will restore you from] your own captivity [in the day of the Lord God],
Ezekiel 16:54 - so that you [Judah] will bear your humiliation and disgrace, and be [thoroughly] ashamed for all [the wickedness] that you have done to console and comfort them.
Ezekiel 16:55 - Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state; and you and your daughters will return to your former state.
Ezekiel 16:56 - For [the name of] your sister Sodom was not mentioned by you [except as a byword] in the day of your pride [when David ruled],
Ezekiel 16:57 - before your [own] wickedness was uncovered. Now you have become an object of reproach and a byword for the daughters of Aram and of Edom and all who are around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you.
Ezekiel 16:58 - You have borne [the penalty of] your lewdness and your repulsive acts,” says the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:59 - Yes, thus says the Lord God, “I will also deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
Ezekiel 16:60 - “Nevertheless, I will remember [with compassion] My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant [with Me].
Ezekiel 16:62 - And I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord,
Ezekiel 16:63 - so that you may remember [in detail] and be ashamed and never open your mouth again because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 22:1 - Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 22:2 - “And you, son of man [Ezekiel], will you judge, will you judge the city of bloodshed? Then make her recognize all her repulsive acts.
Ezekiel 22:3 - You shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time [of doom] will come, and makes idols to defile her, contrary to her interest!
Ezekiel 22:4 - You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols which you have made. Thus you have caused your day [of judgment and punishment] to approach and have arrived at [the completion of] your years; therefore, I have made you an object of scorn to the [pagan] nations and a thing to be mocked by all countries.
Ezekiel 22:5 - Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you [infamous one] of ill repute, full of turmoil.
Ezekiel 22:6 - “Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been intending to shed blood in you.
Ezekiel 22:7 - In you they have treated father and mother lightly. They have oppressed the stranger among you; and in your presence they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 22:8 - You have despised and scorned My sacred things and have profaned My Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:9 - In you are men who slander for the purpose of shedding blood, and in your presence they have eaten [food offered to idols] at the mountain shrines; in your midst they have committed acts of lewdness.
Ezekiel 22:10 - In you men have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness [the nakedness of mother or stepmother]; in you they have violated women who are [set apart as ceremonially] unclean during their menstrual impurity [or after childbirth].
Ezekiel 22:11 - In you one has committed a shameful act with his neighbor’s wife, another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another has violated his sister, his father’s daughter.
Ezekiel 22:12 - In you they have accepted bribes to shed blood; you have taken [forbidden] interest and [a percentage of] profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression and extortion, and you have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 22:13 - “Behold, therefore, I strike My hands [together] at your dishonest gain which you have acquired and at the bloodshed which is among you.
Ezekiel 22:14 - Can your heart (courage) endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and will act.
Ezekiel 22:15 - I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will destroy your filthiness.
Ezekiel 22:16 - You will defile yourself in the sight of the [Gentile] nations, and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.” ’ ”
Ezekiel 22:17 - And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 22:18 - “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross (metallic waste) to Me. All of them are (useless) bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Ezekiel 22:19 - Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you [O Israel] into the midst of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:20 - As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow 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 there and melt you.
Ezekiel 22:21 - I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted in the midst of it.
Ezekiel 22:22 - As silver is melted in the furnace, so will you be melted in the midst of it; and you will know [without any doubt] that I the Lord have poured out My wrath on you [O Israel].’ ”
Ezekiel 22:23 - And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Isaiah 5:7 - For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house (nation) of Israel And the men of Judah are His delightful planting [which He loves]. So He looked for justice, but in fact, [He saw] bloodshed and lawlessness; [He looked] for righteousness, but in fact, [He heard] a cry of distress and oppression.
Jeremiah 2:20 - “For long ago you broke your yoke [in deliberate disobedience] And tore off your bonds [of the law that I gave you]; You said, ‘I will not serve and obey You!’ For on every high hill And under every green tree You have lain down [in idolatrous worship] like a [compliant] prostitute.
Jeremiah 2:21 - Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned against Me Into degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?
Nehemiah 11:1 - Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem; but the rest of the people cast lots to bring one [person] out of ten to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while nine-tenths remained in the other cities.
Acts 7:52 - Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who proclaimed beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;
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 shall return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the [faithful] City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’
Isaiah 57:3 - “But come here, you sons of a sorceress [raised in deception and superstition], Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.
Isaiah 57:4 - Of whom do you make fun? Against whom do you open wide your mouth And stick out your tongue? Are you not children of rebellion (sin), Offspring of deceit,
Isaiah 57:5 - Who inflame yourselves [with lust in pagan rites] among the oaks (terebinth trees), Under every green and leafy tree, Who slaughter the children [in sacrifice] in the ravines Under the clefts of the rocks?
Isaiah 57:6 - Among the smooth stones of the ravine Is your portion, they (the idols) are your lot; Even to them you have poured out a drink offering, You have offered a grain offering. Should I be quiet concerning these things [leaving them unpunished—bearing them with patience]?
Isaiah 57:7 - Upon a high and lofty mountain You have [openly and shamelessly] made your [idolatrous and adulterous] bed; Even there you went up to offer sacrifice [to idols, in spiritual unfaithfulness to Me].
Isaiah 57:8 - Behind the door and the doorpost You have set up your [pagan] symbol; Indeed, far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself, And have gone up and made your bed wide. And you have made a [new] agreement for yourself with the adulterers, You have loved their bed, You have looked [with passion] on their manhood.
Isaiah 57:9 - You have gone to the king [of a pagan land] with oil And increased your perfumes; You have sent your messengers a great distance And made them go down to Sheol (the realm of the dead).
Hosea 11:12 - Ephraim surrounds Me with lies And the house of Israel with deceit; Judah is also unruly against God, Even against the faithful 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 myriads of angels [in festive gathering],
Luke 13:34 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones [to death] those [messengers] who are sent to her [by God]! How often I have wanted to gather your children together [around Me], just as a hen gathers her young under her wings, but you were not willing!
Zephaniah 3:1 - Woe (judgment is coming) to her who is rebellious and defiled, The tyrannical city [Jerusalem]!
Zephaniah 3:2 - She did not listen and heed the voice [of God]; She accepted no correction. She did not trust in the Lord [but trusted her own power]; She did not draw near to her God [but to the pagan gods of Baal or Molech].
Zephaniah 3:3 - Her officials within her are roaring lions; Her judges are [as hungry as] the wolves at evening, They leave nothing for the morning.
Revelation 11:2 - But leave out the court [of the Gentiles] which is outside the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles (the nations); and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months (three and one-half years).
Isaiah 48:2 - For they call themselves [citizens of Jerusalem] after the holy city And depend 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: God will establish her forever. Selah.
2 Samuel 8:15 - So David reigned over all Israel, and continued to administer justice and righteousness for all his people.
2 Chronicles 19:9 - Then the king commanded them, “Do this in the fear of the Lord, faithfully and wholeheartedly.
Revelation 11:8 - And their dead bodies will lie exposed in the open street of the great city (Jerusalem), which in a spiritual sense is called [by the symbolic and allegorical names of] Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
Micah 3:2 - You who hate good and love evil, Who tear the skin off my people And their flesh from their bones;
Micah 3:3 - You who eat the flesh of my people, Strip off their skin from them, Break their bones And chop them in pieces as for the pot, Like meat in a kettle.”

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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.
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!
English Standard Version - How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
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.
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

Jeremiah 3:1 - That is to say, “If a man divorces his wife And she goes [away] from him And becomes another man’s [wife], Will he return to her again? [Of course not!] Will not that land [where such a thing happened] be completely desecrated? But you [rebelled against Me and you] are a prostitute with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me.” says the Lord.
Lamentations 1:8 - Jerusalem sinned greatly; Therefore she has become an unclean thing [and has been removed]. All who honored her [now] despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Even she herself groans and turns [her face] away.
Lamentations 1:9 - Her (ceremonial) uncleanness was on her skirts; She did not [seriously] consider her future. Therefore she has come down [from throne to slavery] in an astonishing manner; She has no comforter. “O Lord” [cries Jerusalem], “look at my affliction, For the enemy has magnified himself [in triumph]!”
Psalms 46:4 - There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.
Ezekiel 16:1 - Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, make Jerusalem understand [the heinous and vile nature of] her repulsive (idolatrous) acts
Ezekiel 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem (all of Israel), “Your [spiritual] origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your [spiritual] father was an Amorite and your [spiritual] mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4 - And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing, nor were you rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
Ezekiel 16:5 - No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out in the open field, for you were loathed on the day that you were born.
Ezekiel 16:6 - “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your [newborn] blood, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’
Ezekiel 16:7 - I made you (Israel) multiply like plants [which grow] in the field, and you grew up and became tall and you reached the age for [wearing] fine jewelry; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8 - “Then I passed by you [again] and looked on you; behold, you were maturing and at the time for love, and I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore [an oath] to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord God, “and you became Mine.”
Ezekiel 16:9 - “Then I washed you with water; yes, I [thoroughly] washed away from you the [clinging] blood and anointed you with oil.
Ezekiel 16:10 - I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
Ezekiel 16:11 - I adorned you with ornaments and I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.
Ezekiel 16:12 - I also put a ring in your nostril 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 dress was [made] of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; so you were extremely beautiful and you advanced and prospered into royalty.
Ezekiel 16:14 - Then your fame went out among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My majesty and splendor which I bestowed on you,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:15 - “But you trusted in and relied on your beauty and prostituted yourself [in idolatry and its debauched rituals] because of your fame, and you poured out your immoralities on every [willing] passer-by and your beauty was his [as you worshiped the idols of the Gentile nations].
Ezekiel 16:16 - You took some of your clothes and made for yourself [decorated] high places and shrines of various colors and prostituted yourself on them—things which should never have come about and taken place.
Ezekiel 16:17 - You also took your beautiful jewels and beautiful vessels made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men so that you could prostitute yourself with them;
Ezekiel 16:18 - and you took your embroidered clothing and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.
Ezekiel 16:19 - Also My bread which I gave you, [made from the] fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, you even offered it before idols [no better than cow dung] as a sweet and soothing aroma; so it happened,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:20 - “Moreover, you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to Me, and you destroyed them as sacrifices [to your man-made gods]. Were your gross immoralities so small a matter?
Ezekiel 16:21 - You slaughtered My children and offered them up to [worthless] idols, forcing them to pass through the [hideousness of the] fire.
Ezekiel 16:22 - And in all your repulsive acts and prostitutions (idolatrous immoralities) you did not [pause to] remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, squirming in your [newborn] blood.
Ezekiel 16:23 - “Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God),
Ezekiel 16:24 - that you built yourself an altar for prostitution and made yourself a high place [for ritual prostitution] in every square [of Jerusalem].
Ezekiel 16:25 - At the beginning of every street you built your high place and made your beauty repulsive; and you offered your body to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene immorality.
Ezekiel 16:26 - You also prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors [by embracing their pagan rituals], and you multiplied your obscene immorality to provoke Me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold now [listen very carefully], I have stretched out My hand against you, reduced your portion, and handed you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your infamous behavior.
Ezekiel 16:28 - You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you prostituted yourself with them and still were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29 - Moreover, you increased your obscene immorality with the land of tradesmen, Chaldea (Babylonia), and yet even with this you were not satisfied.” ’ ”
Ezekiel 16:30 - “How weakened by longing and lust is your heart (mind),” says the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold and brazen prostitute.
Ezekiel 16:31 - When you built your shrine altar for prostitution at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, you were not like a prostitute because you refused payment.
Ezekiel 16:32 - You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, bribing the pagan nations to come to you [as allies] from every direction for your obscene immoralities.
Ezekiel 16:34 - And you are different from other [unfaithful] women in your promiscuity, in that no one follows you to lure you into prostitution, and because you give money and no money is given you; in this way you are different.”
Ezekiel 16:35 - Therefore, O prostitute [Israel], hear the word of the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:36 - Thus says the Lord God, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene immoralities with your lovers (pagan allies), and with all your [repulsive] idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to them,
Ezekiel 16:37 - therefore, listen, I will gather all your lovers (pagan allies) with whom you took pleasure, and all those whom you loved with all those whom you hated; I will even gather them against you from every direction and will expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness [making you, Israel, an object of loathing and of mockery, a spectacle among the nations].
Ezekiel 16:38 - And I [the Lord God] will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezekiel 16:39 - I will also hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and they will leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:40 - They will also incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and slaughter you with their swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 - They will burn down your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women (Gentile nations). Then I will make you cease your prostitution, and you will no longer hire your lovers.
Ezekiel 16:42 - So I will calm My wrath toward you and My jealousy [resulting from being denied what is rightfully and uniquely mine] will turn away from you; I will be pacified and no longer angry.
Ezekiel 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me with all these things, therefore, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head,” says the Lord God, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other repulsive acts.
Ezekiel 16:44 - “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Ezekiel 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. You are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your [spiritual] mother was a Hittite and your [spiritual] father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 - Now your older sister is Samaria, she with her daughters (outlying cities) who live north of you; and your younger sister is Sodom, she with her daughters who live south of you.
Ezekiel 16:47 - Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or behaved in accordance with their pagan practices; but, as if that were too little, you [soon] acted more corruptly in all your ways than they.
Ezekiel 16:48 - As I live,” says the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters (outlying cities) had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:50 - They were haughty and committed repulsive acts before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.
Ezekiel 16:51 - Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, but you have greatly increased your repulsive acts more than they. So you have made your [wicked] sisters [Samaria and Sodom] appear righteous and justified by [comparison to] all the disgusting things which you have done.
Ezekiel 16:52 - Also bear your disgrace [as punishment], having made judgment favorable for your sisters, for [you virtually absolved them] because of your sins in which you behaved more repulsively than they; they are more in the right than you. Yes, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you made your [pagan] sisters seem righteous.
Ezekiel 16:53 - “Nevertheless, I will restore them [again] from their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters (outlying cities), the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them [I will restore you from] your own captivity [in the day of the Lord God],
Ezekiel 16:54 - so that you [Judah] will bear your humiliation and disgrace, and be [thoroughly] ashamed for all [the wickedness] that you have done to console and comfort them.
Ezekiel 16:55 - Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state; and you and your daughters will return to your former state.
Ezekiel 16:56 - For [the name of] your sister Sodom was not mentioned by you [except as a byword] in the day of your pride [when David ruled],
Ezekiel 16:57 - before your [own] wickedness was uncovered. Now you have become an object of reproach and a byword for the daughters of Aram and of Edom and all who are around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you.
Ezekiel 16:58 - You have borne [the penalty of] your lewdness and your repulsive acts,” says the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:59 - Yes, thus says the Lord God, “I will also deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
Ezekiel 16:60 - “Nevertheless, I will remember [with compassion] My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant [with Me].
Ezekiel 16:62 - And I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord,
Ezekiel 16:63 - so that you may remember [in detail] and be ashamed and never open your mouth again because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 22:1 - Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 22:2 - “And you, son of man [Ezekiel], will you judge, will you judge the city of bloodshed? Then make her recognize all her repulsive acts.
Ezekiel 22:3 - You shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time [of doom] will come, and makes idols to defile her, contrary to her interest!
Ezekiel 22:4 - You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols which you have made. Thus you have caused your day [of judgment and punishment] to approach and have arrived at [the completion of] your years; therefore, I have made you an object of scorn to the [pagan] nations and a thing to be mocked by all countries.
Ezekiel 22:5 - Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you [infamous one] of ill repute, full of turmoil.
Ezekiel 22:6 - “Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been intending to shed blood in you.
Ezekiel 22:7 - In you they have treated father and mother lightly. They have oppressed the stranger among you; and in your presence they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 22:8 - You have despised and scorned My sacred things and have profaned My Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:9 - In you are men who slander for the purpose of shedding blood, and in your presence they have eaten [food offered to idols] at the mountain shrines; in your midst they have committed acts of lewdness.
Ezekiel 22:10 - In you men have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness [the nakedness of mother or stepmother]; in you they have violated women who are [set apart as ceremonially] unclean during their menstrual impurity [or after childbirth].
Ezekiel 22:11 - In you one has committed a shameful act with his neighbor’s wife, another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another has violated his sister, his father’s daughter.
Ezekiel 22:12 - In you they have accepted bribes to shed blood; you have taken [forbidden] interest and [a percentage of] profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression and extortion, and you have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.
Ezekiel 22:13 - “Behold, therefore, I strike My hands [together] at your dishonest gain which you have acquired and at the bloodshed which is among you.
Ezekiel 22:14 - Can your heart (courage) endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and will act.
Ezekiel 22:15 - I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will destroy your filthiness.
Ezekiel 22:16 - You will defile yourself in the sight of the [Gentile] nations, and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.” ’ ”
Ezekiel 22:17 - And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 22:18 - “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross (metallic waste) to Me. All of them are (useless) bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Ezekiel 22:19 - Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you [O Israel] into the midst of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:20 - As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow 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 there and melt you.
Ezekiel 22:21 - I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted in the midst of it.
Ezekiel 22:22 - As silver is melted in the furnace, so will you be melted in the midst of it; and you will know [without any doubt] that I the Lord have poured out My wrath on you [O Israel].’ ”
Ezekiel 22:23 - And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Isaiah 5:7 - For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house (nation) of Israel And the men of Judah are His delightful planting [which He loves]. So He looked for justice, but in fact, [He saw] bloodshed and lawlessness; [He looked] for righteousness, but in fact, [He heard] a cry of distress and oppression.
Jeremiah 2:20 - “For long ago you broke your yoke [in deliberate disobedience] And tore off your bonds [of the law that I gave you]; You said, ‘I will not serve and obey You!’ For on every high hill And under every green tree You have lain down [in idolatrous worship] like a [compliant] prostitute.
Jeremiah 2:21 - Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned against Me Into degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?
Nehemiah 11:1 - Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem; but the rest of the people cast lots to bring one [person] out of ten to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while nine-tenths remained in the other cities.
Acts 7:52 - Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who proclaimed beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;
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 shall return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the [faithful] City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’
Isaiah 57:3 - “But come here, you sons of a sorceress [raised in deception and superstition], Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.
Isaiah 57:4 - Of whom do you make fun? Against whom do you open wide your mouth And stick out your tongue? Are you not children of rebellion (sin), Offspring of deceit,
Isaiah 57:5 - Who inflame yourselves [with lust in pagan rites] among the oaks (terebinth trees), Under every green and leafy tree, Who slaughter the children [in sacrifice] in the ravines Under the clefts of the rocks?
Isaiah 57:6 - Among the smooth stones of the ravine Is your portion, they (the idols) are your lot; Even to them you have poured out a drink offering, You have offered a grain offering. Should I be quiet concerning these things [leaving them unpunished—bearing them with patience]?
Isaiah 57:7 - Upon a high and lofty mountain You have [openly and shamelessly] made your [idolatrous and adulterous] bed; Even there you went up to offer sacrifice [to idols, in spiritual unfaithfulness to Me].
Isaiah 57:8 - Behind the door and the doorpost You have set up your [pagan] symbol; Indeed, far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself, And have gone up and made your bed wide. And you have made a [new] agreement for yourself with the adulterers, You have loved their bed, You have looked [with passion] on their manhood.
Isaiah 57:9 - You have gone to the king [of a pagan land] with oil And increased your perfumes; You have sent your messengers a great distance And made them go down to Sheol (the realm of the dead).
Hosea 11:12 - Ephraim surrounds Me with lies And the house of Israel with deceit; Judah is also unruly against God, Even against the faithful 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 myriads of angels [in festive gathering],
Luke 13:34 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones [to death] those [messengers] who are sent to her [by God]! How often I have wanted to gather your children together [around Me], just as a hen gathers her young under her wings, but you were not willing!
Zephaniah 3:1 - Woe (judgment is coming) to her who is rebellious and defiled, The tyrannical city [Jerusalem]!
Zephaniah 3:2 - She did not listen and heed the voice [of God]; She accepted no correction. She did not trust in the Lord [but trusted her own power]; She did not draw near to her God [but to the pagan gods of Baal or Molech].
Zephaniah 3:3 - Her officials within her are roaring lions; Her judges are [as hungry as] the wolves at evening, They leave nothing for the morning.
Revelation 11:2 - But leave out the court [of the Gentiles] which is outside the temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles (the nations); and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months (three and one-half years).
Isaiah 48:2 - For they call themselves [citizens of Jerusalem] after the holy city And depend 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: God will establish her forever. Selah.
2 Samuel 8:15 - So David reigned over all Israel, and continued to administer justice and righteousness for all his people.
2 Chronicles 19:9 - Then the king commanded them, “Do this in the fear of the Lord, faithfully and wholeheartedly.
Revelation 11:8 - And their dead bodies will lie exposed in the open street of the great city (Jerusalem), which in a spiritual sense is called [by the symbolic and allegorical names of] Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
Micah 3:2 - You who hate good and love evil, Who tear the skin off my people And their flesh from their bones;
Micah 3:3 - You who eat the flesh of my people, Strip off their skin from them, Break their bones And chop them in pieces as for the pot, Like meat in a kettle.”