The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
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.
- BSB You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
- 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 20:47Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
- Ezek 39:21And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
- Hab 2:14For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
- Mic 2:2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- Zech 2:5For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
- 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
- Ps 72:19And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
- Mark 12:40Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
- Joel 3:6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
- Matt 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
- 2 Cor 4:6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- 1 Sam 26:19Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
- Jer 10:20My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
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