What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom, so that you can rejoice?
Parallel translations
- WEB What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”
- KJV What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
- NKJV “Whathas My beloved to do in My house, Having done lewd deeds with many? And the holy flesh has passed from you. When you do evil, then you rejoice.
- NASB “What right has My beloved in My house When she has carried out many evil schemes? Can the sacrificial flesh take away from you your disaster, So that you can rejoice?”
- NLT “What right do my beloved people have to come to my Temple, when they have done so many immoral things? Can their vows and sacrifices prevent their destruction? They actually rejoice in doing evil!
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Quick answer
God questions what right His unfaithful 'beloved' has in His house while persisting in wickedness.
Overview
Judah is pictured as a faithless bride whose idolatry ('lewdness') has corrupted her worship. Their sacrifices ('holy flesh') and outward religion cannot mask or remove their sin. True worship requires a faithful heart, something achieved for us only through the cleansing work of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 26
- Prov 2:14from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
- Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- Jer 3:1–2“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
- Prov 21:27The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!
- Jer 12:7I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.
- Ezek 16:25–34At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
- Matt 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
- Prov 10:23The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.
- Hos 3:1Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and offer raisin cakes to idols.”
- Jer 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
- Isa 50:1This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
- Prov 28:9Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
- Ezek 23:2–21“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,
- Prov 26:18Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,
- Luke 8:28When the man saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, shouting in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You not to torture me!”
- Jer 15:1Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.
- Prov 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
- Rom 11:28Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.
- Ps 50:16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
- Hag 2:12–14If a man carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does that item become holy?’” “No,” replied the priests.
- Jer 3:14“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
- Isa 1:11–15“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
- 1 Cor 13:6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
- Jer 3:8She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
- Jer 7:8–11But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
- Jas 4:16As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
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