“You evict the women of My people, Each one from her pleasant house. From her children you take My splendor 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.
- 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.
- 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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Cross-references · 13
- Luke 20:47who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”
- Ezek 39:21I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
- Hab 2:14For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
- Mic 2:2They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
- Zech 2:5For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.
- 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
- Ps 72:19Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
- Mark 12:40those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
- Joel 3:6and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.
- Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
- 2 Cor 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone 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, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’
- Jer 10:20My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
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