逐节对照
- 新标点和合本 - “你们去为我、为以色列和犹大剩下的人，以这书上的话求问耶和华；因我们列祖没有遵守耶和华的言语，没有照这书上所记的去行，耶和华的烈怒就倒在我们身上。”
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - “你们去，以所发现这书上的话，为我、为以色列和犹大幸存的人求问耶和华；因为我们的祖先没有遵守耶和华的话，没有照这书上所记的一切去做，耶和华的烈怒就倒在我们身上。”
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - “你们去，以所发现这书上的话，为我、为以色列和犹大幸存的人求问耶和华；因为我们的祖先没有遵守耶和华的话，没有照这书上所记的一切去做，耶和华的烈怒就倒在我们身上。”
- 当代译本 - “你们去为我及以色列和犹大的余民求问耶和华有关这书卷上的话。耶和华的烈怒已经临到我们身上，因为我们的祖先没有遵守耶和华的话，没有遵行这书卷上的一切吩咐。”
- 圣经新译本 - “你们去，为我、也为以色列和犹大的余民，求问耶和华关于我们发现的这书上的话；因为我们的列祖没有谨守耶和华的话，也没有照着这书上所记的一切去行，所以耶和华才向我们大发烈怒。”
- 中文标准译本 - “关于所发现这书卷上的话语，你们去，为我、为以色列和犹大的余剩者求问耶和华。因为我们的祖先没有谨守耶和华的话语，没有去遵行这书卷上所记的一切，所以耶和华向我们倾泻极大的怒火。”
- 现代标点和合本 - “你们去，为我，为以色列和犹大剩下的人，以这书上的话求问耶和华。因我们列祖没有遵守耶和华的言语，没有照这书上所记的去行，耶和华的烈怒就倒在我们身上。”
- 和合本（拼音版） - 你们去为我、为以色列和犹大剩下的人，以这书上的话求问耶和华，因我们列祖没有遵守耶和华的言语，没有照这书上所记的去行，耶和华的烈怒就倒在我们身上。”
- New International Version - “Go and inquire of the Lord for me and for the remnant in Israel and Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the Lord’s anger that is poured out on us because those who have gone before us have not kept the word of the Lord; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written in this book.”
- New International Reader's Version - “Go. Ask the Lord for advice. Ask him about what is written in this book that has been found. Do it for me. Also do it for the people who remain in Israel and Judah. The Lord has been very angry with us. That’s because our people before us didn’t obey what the Lord had said. They didn’t do everything written in this book.”
- English Standard Version - “Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
- New Living Translation - “Go to the Temple and speak to the Lord for me and for all the remnant of Israel and Judah. Inquire about the words written in the scroll that has been found. For the Lord’s great anger has been poured out on us because our ancestors have not obeyed the word of the Lord. We have not been doing everything this scroll says we must do.”
- Christian Standard Bible - “Go and inquire of the Lord for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the book that was found. For great is the Lord’s wrath that is poured out on us because our ancestors have not kept the word of the Lord in order to do everything written in this book.”
- New American Standard Bible - “Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the book which has been found; for the wrath of the Lord which has poured out on us is great, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to act in accordance with everything that is written in this book.”
- New King James Version - “Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for those who are left in Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
- Amplified Bible - “Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah in regard to the words of the book which has been found; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept and obeyed the word of the Lord, to act in accordance with everything that is written in this book.”
- American Standard Version - Go ye, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do according unto all that is written in this book.
- King James Version - Go, enquire of the Lord for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do after all that is written in this book.
- New English Translation - “Go, seek an oracle from the Lord for me and those who remain in Israel and Judah. Find out about the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, because our ancestors have not obeyed the word of the Lord by doing all that this scroll instructs!”
- World English Bible - “Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
- 新標點和合本 - 「你們去為我、為以色列和猶大剩下的人，以這書上的話求問耶和華；因我們列祖沒有遵守耶和華的言語，沒有照這書上所記的去行，耶和華的烈怒就倒在我們身上。」
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 「你們去，以所發現這書上的話，為我、為以色列和猶大倖存的人求問耶和華；因為我們的祖先沒有遵守耶和華的話，沒有照這書上所記的一切去做，耶和華的烈怒就倒在我們身上。」
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 「你們去，以所發現這書上的話，為我、為以色列和猶大倖存的人求問耶和華；因為我們的祖先沒有遵守耶和華的話，沒有照這書上所記的一切去做，耶和華的烈怒就倒在我們身上。」
- 當代譯本 - 「你們去為我及以色列和猶大的餘民求問耶和華有關這書卷上的話。耶和華的烈怒已經臨到我們身上，因為我們的祖先沒有遵守耶和華的話，沒有遵行這書卷上的一切吩咐。」
- 聖經新譯本 - “你們去，為我、也為以色列和猶大的餘民，求問耶和華關於我們發現的這書上的話；因為我們的列祖沒有謹守耶和華的話，也沒有照著這書上所記的一切去行，所以耶和華才向我們大發烈怒。”
- 呂振中譯本 - 『你們去，為我、為 以色列 中和 猶大 中的餘民、將所發現這一卷書上的話尋問永恆主；因為永恆主的烈怒倒在我們身上來的很大； 這是 因為我們列祖沒有遵守永恆主的話，沒有照一切寫在這書上的去行的緣故。』
- 中文標準譯本 - 「關於所發現這書卷上的話語，你們去，為我、為以色列和猶大的餘剩者求問耶和華。因為我們的祖先沒有謹守耶和華的話語，沒有去遵行這書卷上所記的一切，所以耶和華向我們傾瀉極大的怒火。」
- 現代標點和合本 - 「你們去，為我，為以色列和猶大剩下的人，以這書上的話求問耶和華。因我們列祖沒有遵守耶和華的言語，沒有照這書上所記的去行，耶和華的烈怒就倒在我們身上。」
- 文理和合譯本 - 汝其往哉、為我與以色列及猶大之遺民、以此書之言、詢於耶和華、因我列祖不守耶和華之言、不遵此書所載而行、故耶和華向我、洩忿甚烈、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 曰我得斯書、不明厥旨、爾曹往哉、為我及猶大 以色列之遺民、諮諏耶和華、蓋我列祖未從此書所言、干耶和華震怒。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 爾往為我、為 以色列 及 猶大 之餘民、因此書之言、問於主、我列祖不守主之言、不遵此書所載而行、主必向我大震烈怒、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - —Con respecto a lo que dice este libro que se ha encontrado, vayan a consultar al Señor por mí y por el remanente de Israel y de Judá. Sin duda que la gran ira del Señor se ha derramado contra nosotros porque nuestros antepasados no tuvieron en cuenta su palabra, ni actuaron según lo que está escrito en este libro.
- 현대인의 성경 - “당신들은 가서 나와 그리고 이스라엘과 유다에 아직 남아 있는 사람들을 위해 이 책의 말씀에 대하여 여호와께 물어 보시오. 우리 조상들이 여호와의 말씀을 지키지 않고 이 책에 기록된 대로 행하지 않았기 때문에 여호와께서는 우리에게 몹시 노하고 있소.”
- Новый Русский Перевод - – Идите, вопросите Господа за меня и за оставшийся народ в Израиле и в Иудее о том, что написано в найденной книге. Велик Господень гнев, который обрушился на нас из-за того, что наши отцы не сохранили Господне слово: они не поступали так, как написано в этой книге.
- Восточный перевод - – Пойдите и вопросите Вечного за меня и за оставшийся народ в Исраиле и в Иудее о том, что написано в найденной книге. Велик гнев Вечного, который обрушился на нас из-за того, что наши отцы не сохранили слова Вечного: они не поступали так, как предписывает эта книга.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – Пойдите и вопросите Вечного за меня и за оставшийся народ в Исраиле и в Иудее о том, что написано в найденной книге. Велик гнев Вечного, который обрушился на нас из-за того, что наши отцы не сохранили слова Вечного: они не поступали так, как предписывает эта книга.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – Пойдите и вопросите Вечного за меня и за оставшийся народ в Исроиле и в Иудее о том, что написано в найденной книге. Велик гнев Вечного, который обрушился на нас из-за того, что наши отцы не сохранили слова Вечного: они не поступали так, как предписывает эта книга.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - – Allez consulter l’Eternel pour moi, leur dit-il, ainsi que pour le reste du peuple qui se trouve en Israël et en Juda, au sujet des enseignements du livre que l’on vient de retrouver. Car la colère de l’Eternel est bien grande. Elle s’est répandue sur nous parce que nos ancêtres n’ont pas obéi à la parole de l’Eternel et n’ont pas appliqué tout ce qui est écrit dans ce livre.
- リビングバイブル - 「神殿に行って、私のために主にお願いしてくれないか。イスラエルとユダの残りの者のために、祈ってほしいのだ。この巻物によると、主の激しい怒りが下ったのは、私たちの先祖が、ここに記されている主のことばに従わなかったからだというのだ。」
- Nova Versão Internacional - “Vão consultar o Senhor por mim e pelo remanescente de Israel e de Judá acerca do que está escrito neste livro que foi encontrado. A ira do Senhor contra nós deve ser grande, pois os nossos antepassados não obedeceram à palavra do Senhor e não agiram de acordo com tudo o que está escrito neste livro”.
- Hoffnung für alle - »Geht und fragt den Herrn um Rat für mich und für die Menschen, die in Israel und Juda übrig geblieben sind. Was sollen wir jetzt tun, nachdem das Buch im Tempel gefunden wurde? Der Herr muss sehr zornig auf uns sein, weil schon unsere Väter seine Weisungen nicht befolgt und nicht alles getan haben, was in diesem Buch steht.«
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - “Các ngươi hãy đi đến Đền Thờ và cầu vấn Chúa Hằng Hữu cho ta và cho toàn dân Ít-ra-ên và Giu-đa. Hãy cầu hỏi về những lời được ghi trong bộ sách mới tìm được. Vì cơn phẫn nộ Chúa Hằng Hữu đang đổ ra trên chúng ta thật dữ dội vì tổ phụ chúng ta không vâng giữ lời Chúa Hằng Hữu. Chúng ta cũng không làm theo những điều đã ghi trong sách này!”
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “จงไปทูลถามองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าให้เราและให้ชนหยิบมือที่เหลือในอิสราเอลและยูดาห์เกี่ยวกับสิ่งที่บันทึกไว้ในหนังสือที่ได้พบนี้ พระพิโรธขององค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าที่ตกแก่เรานั้นใหญ่หลวงนัก เพราะบรรพบุรุษของเราไม่ได้ยึดพระวจนะขององค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า ไม่ได้ปฏิบัติตามสิ่งทั้งปวงที่บันทึกไว้ในหนังสือนี้เลย”
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - “จงไปถามพระผู้เป็นเจ้าและบรรดาผู้ที่มีชีวิตเหลืออยู่ในอิสราเอลและในยูดาห์ให้เรา ถึงสิ่งที่บันทึกไว้ในหนังสือที่พบ เพราะความกริ้วของพระผู้เป็นเจ้าพลุ่งขึ้นต่อพวกเรา เนื่องจากว่าบรรพบุรุษของเราไม่ได้รักษาคำบัญญัติของพระผู้เป็นเจ้า ไม่ได้กระทำตามทุกสิ่งที่บันทึกไว้ในหนังสือฉบับนี้”
交叉引用
- Ezekiel 20:1 - In the seventh year, the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, some of the leaders of Israel came to ask for guidance from God. They sat down before me.
- Ezekiel 20:2 - Then God’s Message came to me: “Son of man, talk with the leaders of Israel. Tell them, ‘God, the Master, says, “Have you come to ask me questions? As sure as I am the living God, I’ll not put up with questions from you. Decree of God, the Master.”’
- Ezekiel 20:4 - “Son of man, why don’t you do it? Yes, go ahead. Hold them accountable. Confront them with the outrageous obscenities of their parents. Tell them that God, the Master, says:
- Ezekiel 20:5 - “‘On the day I chose Israel, I revealed myself to them in the country of Egypt, raising my hand in a solemn oath to the people of Jacob, in which I said, “I am God, your personal God.” On the same day that I raised my hand in the solemn oath, I promised them that I would take them out of the country of Egypt and bring them into a country that I had searched out just for them, a country flowing with milk and honey, a jewel of a country.
- Ezekiel 20:7 - “‘At that time I told them, “Get rid of all the vile things that you’ve become addicted to. Don’t make yourselves filthy with the Egyptian no-god idols. I alone am God, your God.”
- Romans 1:18 - But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.
- Deuteronomy 32:15 - Jeshurun put on weight and bucked; you got fat, became obese, a tub of lard. He abandoned the God who made him, he mocked the Rock of his salvation. They made him jealous with their foreign trendy gods, and with obscenities they vexed him no end. They sacrificed to no-god demons, gods they knew nothing about, The latest in gods, fresh from the market, gods your ancestors would never call “gods.” You walked out on the Rock who gave you your life, forgot the birth-God who brought you into the world.
- Deuteronomy 32:19 - God saw it and spun around, angered and hurt by his sons and daughters. He said, “From now on I’m looking the other way. Wait and see what happens to them. Oh, they’re a turned-around, upside-down generation! Who knows what they’ll do from one moment to the next? They’ve goaded me with their no-gods, infuriated me with their hot-air gods; I’m going to goad them with a no-people, with a hollow nation incense them. My anger started a fire, a wildfire burning deep down in Sheol, Then shooting up and devouring the Earth and its crops, setting all the mountains, from bottom to top, on fire. I’ll pile catastrophes on them, I’ll shoot my arrows at them: Starvation, blistering heat, killing disease; I’ll send snarling wild animals to attack from the forest and venomous creatures to strike from the dust. Killing in the streets, terror in the houses, Young men and virgins alike struck down, and yes, breast-feeding babies and gray-haired old men.”
- Leviticus 26:14 - “But if you refuse to obey me and won’t observe my commandments, despising my decrees and holding my laws in contempt by your disobedience, making a shambles of my covenant, I’ll step in and pour on the trouble: debilitating disease, high fevers, blindness, your life leaking out bit by bit. You’ll plant seed but your enemies will eat the crops. I’ll turn my back on you and stand by while your enemies defeat you. People who hate you will govern you. You’ll run scared even when there’s no one chasing you.
- Leviticus 26:18 - “And if none of this works in getting your attention, I’ll discipline you seven times over for your sins. I’ll break your strong pride: I’ll make the skies above you like a sheet of tin and the ground under you like cast iron. No matter how hard you work, nothing will come of it: No crops out of the ground, no fruit off the trees.
- Leviticus 26:21 - “If you defy me and refuse to listen, your punishment will be seven times more than your sins: I’ll set wild animals on you; they’ll rob you of your children, kill your cattle, and decimate your numbers until you’ll think you are living in a ghost town.
- Leviticus 26:23 - “And if even this doesn’t work and you refuse my discipline and continue your defiance, then it will be my turn to defy you. I, yes I, will punish you for your sins seven times over: I’ll let war loose on you, avenging your breaking of the covenant; when you huddle in your cities for protection, I’ll send a deadly epidemic on you and you’ll be helpless before your enemies; when I cut off your bread supply, ten women will bake bread in one oven and ration it out. You’ll eat, but barely—no one will get enough.
- Leviticus 26:27 - “And if this—even this!—doesn’t work and you still won’t listen, still defy me, I’ll have had enough and in hot anger will defy you, punishing you for your sins seven times over: famine will be so severe that you’ll end up cooking and eating your sons in stews and your daughters in barbecues; I’ll smash your sex-and-religion shrines and all the paraphernalia that goes with them, and then stack your corpses and the idol-corpses in the same piles—I’ll abhor you; I’ll turn your cities into rubble; I’ll clean out your sanctuaries; I’ll hold my nose at the “pleasing aroma” of your sacrifices. I’ll turn your land into a lifeless moonscape—your enemies who come in to take over will be shocked at what they see. I’ll scatter you all over the world and keep after you with the point of my sword in your backs. There’ll be nothing left in your land, nothing going on in your cities. With you gone and dispersed in the countries of your enemies, the land, empty of you, will finally get a break and enjoy its Sabbath years. All the time it’s left there empty, the land will get rest, the Sabbaths it never got when you lived there.
- Leviticus 26:36 - “As for those among you still alive, I’ll give them over to fearful timidity—even the rustle of a leaf will throw them into a panic. They’ll run here and there, back and forth, as if running for their lives even though no one is after them, tripping and falling over one another in total confusion. You won’t stand a chance against an enemy. You’ll perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will eat you up. Any who are left will slowly rot away in the enemy lands. Rot. And all because of their sins, their sins compounded by their ancestors’ sins.
- Leviticus 26:40 - “On the other hand, if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors, their treacherous betrayal, the defiance that set off my defiance that sent them off into enemy lands; if by some chance they soften their hard hearts and make amends for their sin, I’ll remember my covenant with Jacob, I’ll remember my covenant with Isaac, and, yes, I’ll remember my covenant with Abraham. And I’ll remember the land.
- Leviticus 26:43 - “The land will be empty of them and enjoy its Sabbaths while they’re gone. They’ll pay for their sins because they refused my laws and treated my decrees with contempt. But in spite of their behavior, while they are among their enemies I won’t reject or abhor or destroy them completely. I won’t break my covenant with them: I am God, their God. For their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I, with all the nations watching, brought out of Egypt in order to be their God. I am God.”
- Leviticus 26:46 - These are the decrees, laws, and instructions that God established between himself and the People of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai.
- 2 Kings 17:6 - In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign the king of Assyria captured Samaria and took the people into exile in Assyria. He relocated them in Halah, in Gozan along the Habor River, and in the towns of the Medes.
- 2 Kings 17:7 - The exile came about because of sin: The children of Israel sinned against God, their God, who had delivered them from Egypt and the brutal oppression of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They took up with other gods, fell in with the ways of life of the pagan nations God had chased off, and went along with whatever their kings did. They did all kinds of things on the sly, things offensive to their God, then openly and shamelessly built local sex-and-religion shrines at every available site. They set up their sex-and-religion symbols at practically every crossroads. Everywhere you looked there was smoke from their pagan offerings to the deities—the identical offerings that had gotten the pagan nations off into exile. They had accumulated a long list of evil actions and God was fed up, fed up with their persistent worship of gods carved out of deadwood or shaped out of clay, even though God had plainly said, “Don’t do this—ever!”
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 - Then God directed the leaders of the troops of the king of Assyria to come after Manasseh. They put a hook in his nose, shackles on his feet, and took him off to Babylon. Now that he was in trouble, he dropped to his knees in prayer asking for help—total repentance before the God of his ancestors. As he prayed, God was touched; God listened and brought him back to Jerusalem as king. That convinced Manasseh that God was in control.
- 1 Kings 22:6 - The king of Israel got the prophets together—all four hundred of them—and put the question to them: “Should I attack Ramoth Gilead? Or should I hold back?” “Go for it,” they said. “God will hand it over to the king.”
- 1 Kings 22:7 - But Jehoshaphat dragged his heels: “Is there still another prophet of God around here we can consult?”
- Deuteronomy 31:16 - God spoke to Moses: “You’re about to die and be buried with your ancestors. You’ll no sooner be in the grave than this people will be up and lusting after the foreign gods of this country that they are entering. They will abandon me and violate my Covenant that I’ve made with them. I’ll get angry, oh so angry! I’ll walk off and leave them on their own, won’t so much as look back at them. Then many calamities and disasters will devastate them because they are defenseless. They’ll say, ‘Isn’t it because our God wasn’t here that all this evil has come upon us?’ But I’ll stay out of their lives, keep looking the other way because of all their evil: they took up with other gods!
- Deuteronomy 31:19 - “But for right now, copy down this song and teach the People of Israel to sing it by heart. They’ll have it then as my witness against them. When I bring them into the land that I promised to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they eat and become full and get fat and then begin fooling around with other gods and worshiping them, and then things start falling apart, many terrible things happening, this song will be there with them as a witness to who they are and what went wrong. Their children won’t forget this song; they’ll be singing it. Don’t think I don’t know what they are already scheming to do, and they’re not even in the land yet, this land I promised them.”
- Deuteronomy 31:22 - So Moses wrote down this song that very day and taught it to the People of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 30:17 - But I warn you: If you have a change of heart, refuse to listen obediently, and willfully go off to serve and worship other gods, you will most certainly die. You won’t last long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
- Deuteronomy 30:19 - I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today: I place before you Life and Death, Blessing and Curse. Choose life so that you and your children will live. And love God, your God, listening obediently to him, firmly embracing him. Oh yes, he is life itself, a long life settled on the soil that God, your God, promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Exodus 18:15 - Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me with questions about God. When something comes up, they come to me. I judge between a man and his neighbor and teach them God’s laws and instructions.”
- Deuteronomy 29:22 - The next generation, your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a far country, will be appalled when they see the widespread devastation, how God made the whole land sick. They’ll see a fire-blackened wasteland of brimstone and salt flats, nothing planted, nothing growing, not so much as a blade of grass anywhere—like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which God overthrew in fiery rage.
- Deuteronomy 29:24 - All the nations will ask, “Why did God do this to this country? What on earth could have made him this angry?”
- Deuteronomy 29:25 - Your children will answer, “Because they abandoned the Covenant of the God of their ancestors that he made with them after he got them out of Egypt; they went off and worshiped other gods, submitted to gods they’d never heard of before, gods they had no business dealing with. So God’s anger erupted against that land and all the curses written in this book came down on it. God, furiously angry, pulled them, roots and all, out of their land and dumped them in another country, as you can see.”
- Isaiah 37:3 - They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘This is a black day. We’re in crisis. We’re like pregnant women without even the strength to have a baby! Do you think your God heard what the Rabshekah said, sent by his master the king of Assyria to mock the living God? And do you think your God will do anything about it? Pray for us, Isaiah. Pray for those of us left here holding the fort!’”
- Deuteronomy 28:15 - Here’s what will happen if you don’t obediently listen to the Voice of God, your God, and diligently keep all the commandments and guidelines that I’m commanding you today. All these curses will come down hard on you: God’s curse in the city, God’s curse in the country; God’s curse on your basket and bread bowl; God’s curse on your children, the crops of your land, the young of your livestock, the calves of your herds, the lambs of your flocks. God’s curse in your coming in, God’s curse in your going out.
- Romans 2:9 - If you go against the grain, you get splinters, regardless of which neighborhood you’re from, what your parents taught you, what schools you attended. But if you embrace the way God does things, there are wonderful payoffs, again without regard to where you are from or how you were brought up. Being a Jew won’t give you an automatic stamp of approval. God pays no attention to what others say (or what you think) about you. He makes up his own mind.
- Romans 2:12 - If you sin without knowing what you’re doing, God takes that into account. But if you sin knowing full well what you’re doing, that’s a different story entirely. Merely hearing God’s law is a waste of your time if you don’t do what he commands. Doing, not hearing, is what makes the difference with God.
- Ezekiel 14:1 - Some of the leaders of Israel approached me and sat down with me. God’s Message came to me: “Son of Man, these people have installed idols in their hearts. They have embraced the wickedness that will ruin them. Why should I even bother with their prayers? Therefore tell them, ‘The Message of God, the Master: All in Israel who install idols in their hearts and embrace the wickedness that will ruin them and still have the gall to come to a prophet, be on notice: I, God, will step in and personally answer them as they come dragging along their mob of idols. I am ready to go to work on the hearts of the house of Israel, all of whom have left me for their idols.’
- Ezekiel 14:6 - “Therefore, say to the house of Israel: ‘God, the Master, says, Repent! Turn your backs on your no-god idols. Turn your backs on all your outrageous obscenities. To every last person from the house of Israel, including any of the resident aliens who live in Israel—all who turn their backs on me and embrace idols, who install the wickedness that will ruin them at the center of their lives and then have the gall to go to the prophet to ask me questions—I, God, will step in and give the answer myself. I’ll oppose those people to their faces, make an example of them—a warning lesson—and get rid of them so you will realize that I am God.
- Ezekiel 14:9 - “‘If a prophet is deceived and tells these idolaters the lies they want to hear, I, God, get blamed for those lies. He won’t get by with it. I’ll grab him by the scruff of the neck and get him out of there. They’ll be equally guilty, the prophet and the one who goes to the prophet, so that the house of Israel will never again wander off my paths and make themselves filthy in their rebellions, but will rather be my people, just as I am their God. Decree of God, the Master.’” * * *