And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will profane it.
- BSB And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.
- NKJV I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers, And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile it.
- NASB And I will hand it over to the foreigners as plunder, and to the wicked of the earth as spoils; and they will profane it.
- NLT I will give it as plunder to foreigners, to the most wicked of nations, and they will defile it.
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Quick answer
God will hand over their treasures to foreigners and the wicked as plunder, who will profane them. What they idolized is given to enemies.
Overview
The Lord declares He will give the people's prized possessions to strangers and the wicked as spoil, who will defile them. The idols and riches they trusted become trophies for invaders. This handing over shows that what people exalt above God He can strip away, leaving idolaters with neither their treasures nor their God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 2 Kgs 24:13And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
- Ps 74:2–8Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
- 2 Kgs 25:13–16And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
- Ps 79:1O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
- 2 Chr 36:18–19And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
- 2 Kgs 25:9And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.
- Jer 52:13–23And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
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