Jeremiah 23:11
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For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
In other translations
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
Hebrew words
כִּי־ki-forH3588גַם־gam-bothH1571נָבִיאnavi'prophetH5030גַם־gam-as well asH1571כֹּהֵןkohenpriestH3548חָנֵפוּchanefuthey are pollutedH2610גַּם־gam-alsoH1571בְּבֵיתִיbeveitiin house myH1004מָצָאתִיmatzatiI have foundH4672רָעָתָםra'atamwickedness theirH7451נְאֻם־ne'um-[the] utterance ofH5002יְהוָה׃yahwehYahwehH3068
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Related verses
- Zephaniah 3:4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.
- Jeremiah 6:13For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
- Matthew 21:12-1312 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.12 Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves. 13 And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- Jeremiah 32:34But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
- Ezekiel 23:39For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.
- Jeremiah 11:15What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom, so that you can rejoice?
- Jeremiah 7:30For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 7:10-1110 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord.10 and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’? 11 Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 8:10Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
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