Jeremiah 6:7
As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps her wickedness fresh. Violence and destruction are heard within her; continually before me, there are sickness and wounds.
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Other Translations
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
KJV1611 – Modern English
As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
As a well{H953} casteth forth{H6979} its waters,{H4325} so she casteth forth{H6979} her wickedness:{H7451} violence{H2555} and destruction{H7701} is heard{H8085} in her; before me{H6440} continually{H8548} is sickness{H2483} and wounds.{H4347}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
As a fountain{H953} casteth out{H6979}{(H8687)} her waters{H4325}, so she casteth out{H6979}{(H8689)} her wickedness{H7451}: violence{H2555} and spoil{H7701} is heard{H8085}{(H8735)} in her; before me{H6440} continually{H8548} is grief{H2483} and wounds{H4347}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Like as a codyte aboundeth in water, eue so this citie aboudeth in wickednes. Robbery and vnrightuousnesse is herde in her, sorow & woundes are euer there in my sight.
Geneva Bible (1560)
As the fountaine casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her malice: crueltie and spoyle is continually heard in her before me with sorowe and strokes.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Like as a conduite spouteth out waters, so she spouteth out her wickednesse: Robberie and vnrighteousnesse is hearde in her, sorowe and woundes are euer there in my sight.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually [is] grief and wounds.
Webster's Bible (1833)
As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
As the digging of a well, is `for' its waters, So she hath digged `for' her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually `are' sickness and smiting.
American Standard Version (1901)
As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
American Standard Version (1901)
As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.
World English Bible (2000)
As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
As a well continually pours out fresh water so it continually pours out wicked deeds. Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it. All I see are sick and wounded people.’
Referenced Verses
- Ezek 7:11 : 11 Violence has arisen as the rod of wickedness. None of the people, none of their wealth, and none of their prominence will remain.
- Ezek 7:23 : 23 Prepare chains, for the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
- Jer 20:8 : 8 Whenever I speak, I cry out, proclaiming violence and destruction. So the word of the LORD has brought me insult and reproach all day long.
- Isa 57:20 : 20 But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.
- Ps 55:9-9 : 9 I would hurry to a place of refuge, away from the stormy wind and tempest. 10 Confuse, O Lord, and divide their speech, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 11 Day and night they surround it on its walls, and trouble and wickedness are within it.
- Prov 4:23 : 23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
- Ezek 22:3-9 : 3 Then say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You city that sheds blood in her midst to bring her time closer, and makes idols to defile herself, 4 You have become guilty because of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you made. You have brought your days near and have come to the end of your years. Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands. 5 Those near and those far from you will mock you, you who are defiled in name and full of turmoil. 6 See, the princes of Israel, each one by his own might, have been in you to shed blood. 7 Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow. 8 You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths. 9 The men in you who slander for the purpose of shedding blood eat at the high places; they commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity. 11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
- Ezek 24:7 : 7 For the blood she has shed is inside her; she placed it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.
- Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it. 2 They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.
- Mic 2:8-9 : 8 But lately, my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off the garments of those who pass by trustingly, returning from war. 9 You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever. 10 Get up and leave, for this is not your resting place! Because it is defiled, it brings destruction—a grievous destruction.
- Mic 3:1-3 : 1 Then I said: "Hear now, leaders of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not your responsibility to know justice? 2 You who hate good and love evil; you tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones. 3 You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron.
- Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, you who despise justice and twist all that is right: 10 You build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, 'Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.' 12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.
- Mic 7:2-3 : 2 The godly have perished from the land, and there is no upright person among humanity. All of them lie in wait for blood; they hunt each other with nets. 3 Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.
- Jas 3:10-12 : 10 Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not be this way. 11 Does a spring pour forth both sweet and bitter water from the same opening? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt spring yield fresh water.
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