Jeremiah 23:11
Jeremiah chapter 23 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
Context
v.10For 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;
v.11This passage
v.12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah’s house; and behold, at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
- 2 Chronicles 33:7
And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
- Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
- Ezekiel 8:11
And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
- Jeremiah 32:34
But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
- Ezekiel 23:39
For 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 my house.