Jeremiah 17:2-4
Contemporary English Version
2 One generation after another
has set up pagan altars
and worshiped the goddess Asherah
everywhere in your country—
on hills and mountains,
and under large trees.
3 So I'll take everything you own,
including your altars,
and give it all
to your enemies.[a]
4 You will lose[b] the land
that I gave you,
and I will make you slaves
in a foreign country,
because you have made my anger
blaze up like a fire
that won't stop burning.
Jeremiah 17:2-4
New International Version
2 Even their children remember
their altars and Asherah poles[a](A)
beside the spreading trees
and on the high hills.(B)
3 My mountain in the land
and your[b] wealth and all your treasures
I will give away as plunder,(C)
together with your high places,(D)
because of sin throughout your country.(E)
4 Through your own fault you will lose
the inheritance(F) I gave you.
I will enslave you to your enemies(G)
in a land(H) you do not know,
for you have kindled my anger,
and it will burn(I) forever.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:2 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
- Jeremiah 17:3 Or hills / 3 and the mountains of the land. / Your
Jeremiah 17:2-4
New King James Version
2 While their children remember
Their altars and their (A)wooden[a] images
By the green trees on the high hills.
3 O My mountain in the field,
I will give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures,
And your high places of sin within all your borders.
4 And you, even yourself,
Shall let go of your heritage which I gave you;
And I will cause you to serve your enemies
In (B)the land which you do not know;
For (C)you have kindled a fire in My anger which shall burn forever.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:2 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
Jeremiah 17:2-4
King James Version
2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
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