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Jeremiah 5:7

How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

KJV

Super quo propitius tibi esse potero ? filii tui dereliquerunt me, et jurant in his qui non sunt dii. Saturavi eos, et mœchati sunt, et in domo meretricis luxuriabantur.

Vulgate

ποίᾳ τούτων ἵλεως γένωμαί σοι; οἱ υἱοί σου ἐνκατέλιπόν με καὶ ὤμνυον ἐν τοῖς οὐκ οὖσιν θεοῖς· καὶ ἐχόρτασα αὐτούς, καὶ ἐμοιχῶντο καὶ ἐν οἴκοις πορνῶν κατέλυον.

LXX

How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses;

ASV

אֵ֤י לָ/זֹאת֙ אסלוח אֶֽסְלַֽח לָ֔/ךְ בָּנַ֣יִ/ךְ עֲזָב֔וּ/נִי וַ/יִּשָּׁבְע֖וּ בְּ/לֹ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים וָ/אַשְׂבִּ֤עַ אוֹתָ/ם֙ וַ/יִּנְאָ֔פוּ וּ/בֵ֥ית זוֹנָ֖ה יִתְגֹּדָֽדוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵי
'y
pronoun · 38×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בֵּ֣ית
byt
noun · 2032×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
זֹּ֔את
z't
pronoun · 604×
זוֹנָ֔ה
zvnh
verb · 92×
יִֽשְׂבַּֽע
yshb'
verb · 96×
יִּתְגֹּֽדְדוּ֙
ytgddv
verb · 7×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים
mn'pym
verb · 31×
נִי
ny
verb · 212×
נִסְלַ֥ח
nslch
verb · 47×
נִשְׁבַּ֥ע
nshb'
verb · 182×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2380Adultery refers to marital infidelity. When two partners, of whom at least one is married to another party, have sexual relations - even transient ones - they commit adultery. Christ condemns even adultery of mere desire.170 The sixth commandment and the New Testament forbid adultery absolutely.171 The prophets denounce the gravity of adultery; they see it as an image of the si…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 8:4 — As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
  • Deut 6:13 — Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
  • Deut 32:15 — But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
  • Deut 32:15 — But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
  • Deut 32:21 — They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them t
  • Ezek 22:11 — And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
  • Gal 4:8 — Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
  • Gen 35:2 — Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
  • Hos 4:2 — By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
  • Hos 4:2 — By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
  • Hos 7:4 — They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
  • Jas 4:4 — Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
  • Jer 2:11 — Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
  • Jer 9:2 — 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.
  • Jer 12:16 — And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst o
  • Jer 13:27 — I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it
  • Jer 13:27 — I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it
  • Jer 16:11 — Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have n
  • Jer 23:10 — 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.
  • Jer 23:10 — 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.
  • Job 31:12 — For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
  • Josh 23:7 — That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
  • Josh 23:7 — That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
  • Zeph 1:5 — And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
  • Zeph 1:5 — And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;