Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your substance and your treasures will I give for a plunder without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.
- BSB Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
- NKJV Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder without price, Because of all your sins, Throughout your territories.
- NASB “I will give your wealth and your treasures As plunder without cost, For all your sins And within all your borders.
- NLT At no cost to them, I will hand over your wealth and treasures as plunder to your enemies, for sin runs rampant in your land.
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Quick answer
God will hand over Judah's wealth and treasures as plunder without payment, because of her sins throughout the land. Their accumulated riches cannot save them and will be lost in judgment.
Overview
The loss of substance and treasure as free spoil to the enemy underscores that ill-gotten security offers no protection from God's judgment. Their sin, spread through all their borders, brings comprehensive loss. It warns against treasuring earthly wealth over God and points to the lasting riches found only in Christ, treasures that no enemy can plunder (Matthew 6:19-20).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Jer 17:3O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
- Ps 44:12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
- Isa 52:3For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
- Jer 20:5Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
- Isa 52:5Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
- Jer 15:8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
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