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26 You depend on your swords, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?(A)

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26 You rely on your sword, you do detestable things,(A) and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife.(B) Should you then possess the land?’

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The officials within it
    are roaring lions;
its judges are evening wolves
    that leave nothing until the morning.(A)

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Her officials within her
    are roaring lions;(A)
her rulers are evening wolves,(B)
    who leave nothing for the morning.(C)

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Social Evils Denounced

Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and evil deeds[a] on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in their power.(A)
They covet fields and seize them,
    houses and take them away;
they oppress householder and house,
    people and their inheritance.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.1 Cn: Heb work evil

Human Plans and God’s Plans

Woe to those who plan iniquity,
    to those who plot evil(A) on their beds!(B)
At morning’s light they carry it out
    because it is in their power to do it.
They covet fields(C) and seize them,(D)
    and houses, and take them.
They defraud(E) people of their homes,
    they rob them of their inheritance.(F)

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40 By your sword you shall live,
    and you shall serve your brother,
but when you break loose,[a]
    you shall break his yoke from your neck.”(A)

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  1. 27.40 Meaning of Heb uncertain

40 You will live by the sword
    and you will serve(A) your brother.(B)
But when you grow restless,
    you will throw his yoke
    from off your neck.(C)

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27 But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(A)

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27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,(A) but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(B)

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But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)

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  1. 21.8 Or the unbelieving
  2. 21.8 Or prostitutes

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars(A)—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.(B) This is the second death.”(C)

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You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(A)

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

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In you are those who slander to shed blood, those in you who eat upon the mountains, who commit lewdness in your midst.(A) 10 In you they uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women during their menstrual periods.(B) 11 One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father’s daughter.(C)

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In you are slanderers(A) who are bent on shedding blood;(B) in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines(C) and commit lewd acts.(D) 10 In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed;(E) in you are those who violate women during their period,(F) when they are ceremonially unclean.(G) 11 In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife,(H) another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law,(I) and another violates his sister,(J) his own father’s daughter.(K)

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15 who does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

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15 “He does not eat at the mountain shrines(A)
    or look to the idols(B) of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

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11 who does any of these things (though his father[a] does none of them), who eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife, 12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,(A)

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  1. 18.11 Heb he

11 (though the father has done none of them):

“He eats at the mountain shrines.(A)
He defiles his neighbor’s wife.
12 He oppresses the poor(B) and needy.
He commits robbery.
He does not return what he took in pledge.(C)
He looks to the idols.
He does detestable things.(D)

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if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period,(A)

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He does not eat at the mountain(A) shrines
    or look to the idols(B) of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife
    or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.(C)

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They were well-fed lusty stallions,
    each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.(A)
Shall I not punish them for these things?
            says the Lord,
    and shall I not bring retribution
    on a nation such as this?(B)

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They are well-fed, lusty stallions,
    each neighing for another man’s wife.(A)
Should I not punish them for this?”(B)
    declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge(C) myself
    on such a nation as this?

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20 Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
    those who contrive mischief by statute?(A)
21 They band together against the life of the righteous
    and condemn the innocent to death.(B)

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20 Can a corrupt throne(A) be allied with you—
    a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?(B)
21 The wicked band together(C) against the righteous
    and condemn the innocent(D) to death.(E)

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