You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
Parallel translations
- WEB You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
- KJV The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
- NKJV The women of My people you cast out From their pleasant houses; From their children You have taken away My glory forever.
- NASB “You evict the women of My people, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor forever.
- NLT You have evicted women from their pleasant homes and forever stripped their children of all that God would give them.
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Quick answer
They evict women from their homes and strip God's blessing from the children. It condemns cruelty against the most defenseless.
Overview
Driving women and their children from 'pleasant houses' robs the helpless of both shelter and their God-given inheritance. Such treatment of women and children was an especially grievous violation of covenant compassion. God's special concern for the vulnerable makes this oppression an offense He will surely judge.
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- Luke 20:47They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
- Ezek 39:21I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
- Hab 2:14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
- Mic 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
- Zech 2:5For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
- 2 Cor 3:18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- Ps 72:19And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.
- Mark 12:40They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
- Joel 3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
- Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
- 2 Cor 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- 1 Sam 26:19Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
- Jer 10:20My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.
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