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Jeremiah 9:2

If 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.

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ASV

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

KJV

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

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15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מִֽי־mi-who?H4310 →
יִתְּנֵ֣נִיyi.te.Ne.niwill he give meH5414 →
בַמִּדְבָּ֗רva.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057 →
מְלוֹן֙me.lOna lodging place ofH4411 →
אֹֽרְחִ֔ים'o.re.ChimtravelersH732 →
וְאֶֽעֶזְבָה֙ve.'e.'ez.Vahand I will leaveH5800 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
עַמִּ֔י'a.Mipeople myH5971 →
וְאֵלְכָ֖הve.'e.le.Khahand I will goH1980 →
מֵֽאִתָּ֑םme.'i.Tamfrom with <the> themH854 →
כִּ֤יkiforH3588 →
כֻלָּם֙khu.Lamall of themH3605 →
מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔יםme.Na.'a.Fim[are] adulterersH5003 →
עֲצֶ֖רֶת'a.Tze.retan assembly ofH6116 →
בֹּגְדִֽים׃bo.ge.Dimtreacherous [people]H898 →

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Psalms 55:7How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. SelahJeremiah 23:10For 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.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.Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?Jeremiah 12:6Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.Hosea 7:4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.Proverbs 21:19Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.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.Hosea 5:7They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.Hosea 6:7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.Zephaniah 3:4Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.Psalms 120:5–7Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!Psalms 55:6–8I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.Micah 7:1–7Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.Ezekiel 22:10–11In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.Malachi 2:11Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.Romans 2:22You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

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