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Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.

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ASV

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;

KJV

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

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18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּ֤יkiforH3588 →
מְנָֽאֲפִים֙me.na.'a.FimadulterersH5003 →
מָלְאָ֣הmal.'Ahit is fullH4390 →
הָאָ֔רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
מִפְּנֵ֤יmi.pe.Nei<from> because ofH6440 →
אָלָה֙'a.Laha curseH423 →
אָבְלָ֣ה'a.ve.Lahit has dried upH56 →
הָאָ֔רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
יָבְשׁ֖וּya.ve.Shuthey have become dryH3001 →
נְא֣וֹתne.'ot[the] pastures ofH4999 →
מִדְבָּ֑רmid.Bar[the] wildernessH4057 →
וַתְּהִ֤יva.te.Hiand it has becomeH1961 →
מְרֽוּצָתָם֙me.ru.tza.Tamcourse [of life] theirH4794 →
רָעָ֔הra.'AhevilH7451 →
וּגְבוּרָתָ֖םu.ge.vu.ra.Tamand strength theirH1369 →
לֹא־lo'-[is] notH3808 →
כֵֽן׃KhenrightH3651 →

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Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.Hosea 4:2–3Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.Ephesians 2:2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.Jeremiah 9:10I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.Jeremiah 5:7–8“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.Jeremiah 9:2If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.Jeremiah 12:11They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.Jeremiah 5:7“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”Ezekiel 22:9–11Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.Isaiah 24:6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.Isaiah 5:18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,Joel 1:10The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.Jeremiah 7:9Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,James 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.1 Timothy 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teachingGalatians 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

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