Proverbs 2:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 3:4 : 4 Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, `My father, Thou `art' the leader of my youth?
  • Ezek 16:8 : 8 And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time `is' a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And thou dost become Mine.
  • Ezek 16:59-60 : 59 For thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, In that thou hast despised an oath -- to break covenant. 60 And I -- I have remembered My covenant with thee, In the days of thy youth, And I have established for thee a covenant age-during.
  • Prov 5:18 : 18 Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife. 15 And He did not make one `only', And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what `is' the one `alone'! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously. 16 For `I' hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He `who' hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

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    18 For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

    19 None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

  • Prov 2:16
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    16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

  • Prov 4:5-6
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    5 Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.

    6 Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.

  • Jer 2:32-33
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    32 Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.

    33 What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.

  • Prov 5:18-20
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    18 Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

    19 A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

    20 And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.

  • Hos 2:5-7
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    5 For gone a-whoring hath their mother, Acted shamefully hath their conceiver, For she hath said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

    6 Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.

    7 And she hath pursued her lovers, And she doth not overtake them, And hath sought them, and doth not find, And she hath said: I go, and I turn back unto My first husband, For -- better to me then than now.

  • Mal 2:14
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    14 And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20 But -- a woman hath deceived her friend, So ye have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah.

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    25 Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

  • Ezek 23:35
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    35 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten Me, And thou dost cast Me behind thy back, Even thou also bear thy wickedness and thy whoredoms.'

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24 To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25 Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

    26 For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

  • Jer 2:19-20
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    19 Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing `Is' thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

    20 For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, `I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, Thou art wandering -- a harlot.

  • Prov 5:6
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    6 The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not.

  • Jer 2:17
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    17 Dost thou not do this to thyself? `By' thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way?

  • Prov 7:5
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    5 To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

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    6 For, as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Called thee hath Jehovah, Even a youthful wife when she is refused, said thy God.

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    13 And I have charged on her the days of the Baalim, To whom she maketh perfume, And putteth on her ring and her ornament, And goeth after her lovers, And Me forgat -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

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    8 Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

    9 Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

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    43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, And dost give trouble to Me in all these, Lo, even I also thy way at first gave up, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I did not this thought for all thine abominations.

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    17 And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them.

    18 And she revealeth her whoredoms, And she revealeth her nakedness, And alienated is My soul from off her, As alienated was My soul from off her sister.

    19 And she multiplieth her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt.

  • Prov 23:27
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    27 For a harlot `is' a deep ditch, And a strange woman `is' a strait pit.

  • Prov 2:13
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    13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

  • Prov 22:14
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    14 A deep pit `is' the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

  • Prov 7:22
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    22 He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

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    10 Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house,

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    6 Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

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    25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst, And thou sayest, `It is incurable, No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I go.'

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    11 Dealt treacherously hath Judah, And abomination hath been done in Israel, and in Jerusalem, For polluted hath Judah the holy thing of Jehovah, That He hath loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

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    32 He who committeth adultery `with' a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

  • Deut 29:25
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    25 `And they have said, Because that they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah, God of their fathers, which He made with them in His bringing them out of the land of Egypt,

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    20 Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

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    11 Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

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    20 Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

  • Ezek 16:17
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    17 And thou dost take thy beauteous vessels Of My gold and My silver that I gave to thee, And dost make to thee images of a male, And dost go a-whoring with them,