I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
Parallel translations
- KJV Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
- BSB And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
- NKJV I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
- NASB Then I did away with the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was tired of me.
- NLT I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month. But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too.
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- John 15:18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
- John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
- Isa 49:7Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
- Matt 23:34–36Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
- John 15:23–25He who hates me, hates my Father also.
- Hos 5:7They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
- Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
- Jer 12:8My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.
- Heb 10:38But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
- Deut 32:19Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
- Ps 106:40Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.
- Lev 26:11I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
- Jer 14:21Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
- Hos 9:15“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
- Matt 24:50–51the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in an hour when he doesn’t know it,
- Lev 26:30I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
- Lev 26:44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;
- Luke 12:50But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
- Ps 5:5The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
- Ps 78:9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
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