The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
Parallel translations
- KJV The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
- BSB The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.
- NKJV “The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.
- NASB The leaders of Judah have become like those who displace a boundary marker; On them I will pour out My anger like water.
- NLT “The leaders of Judah have become like thieves. So I will pour my anger on them like a waterfall.
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Quick answer
Judah's leaders are condemned as those who move boundary markers, and God will pour out His wrath on them. Judah, too, falls under judgment for injustice.
Overview
Removing a landmark was a serious act of theft and injustice, condemned in the law, and here it pictures Judah's leaders seizing what is not theirs. Their greed and lawlessness provoke God to pour out His wrath 'like water.' The verse shows that Judah is not exempt from judgment, for the same God who judges Israel holds Judah accountable for injustice and the violation of His commands.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 19:14You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
- Ps 32:6For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
- Ps 93:3–4The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
- Deut 27:17‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
- Matt 7:27The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell — and great was its fall.”
- Prov 17:14The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
- Luke 6:49But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
- Ezek 7:8Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.
- Ps 88:17They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
- 2 Chr 28:16–22At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
- Prov 22:28Don’t move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
- 2 Kgs 16:7–9So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”
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