Add parallel Print Page Options

26 if I have looked at the sun[a] when it shone,
    or the moon moving in splendor,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 31:26 Heb the light

27 and my heart has been secretly enticed,
    and my mouth has kissed my hand;

Read full chapter

18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

Read full chapter

and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped; and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.

Read full chapter

17 But we will do everything that we have vowed, burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no evil. 18 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.” 19 And the women said,[a] “When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out libations to her, was it without our husbands’ approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out libations to her?”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:19 Compare Syr: Heb lacks And the women said

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,

Read full chapter

Bible Gateway Recommends

RSV Catholic Bible, Edition 2, Bonded Leather, Burgundy
RSV Catholic Bible, Edition 2, Bonded Leather, Burgundy
Retail: $49.95
Our Price: $49.94
Save: $0.01 (0%)
5.0 of 5.0 stars
Youcat Bible
Youcat Bible
Retail: $24.95
Our Price: $23.17
Save: $1.78 (7%)
2.5 of 5.0 stars