Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’ New Living Translation Look now, people of Judah; you have as many gods as you have towns. You have as many altars of shame—altars for burning incense to your god Baal—as there are streets in Jerusalem. English Standard Version For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to make offerings to Baal. Berean Standard Bible Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’ King James Bible For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal. New King James Version For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal. New American Standard Bible For your gods are as many as your cities, Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars for burning incense to Baal. NASB 1995 “For your gods are as many as your cities, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal. NASB 1977 “For your gods are as many as your cities, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal. Legacy Standard Bible For your gods are the number of your cities, O Judah; and the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal. Amplified Bible For [as many as] the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah; and [as many as] the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal. Christian Standard Bible Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah, and the altars you have set up to Shame —altars to burn incense to Baal—as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem. Holman Christian Standard Bible Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah, and the altars you have set up to Shame —altars to burn incense to Baal—as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem. American Standard Version For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal. English Revised Version For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal. GOD'S WORD® Translation Judah, you have as many gods as you have cities. You have set up many altars [in Jerusalem] to sacrifice to Baal. You have as many altars as there are streets in Jerusalem. Good News Translation The people of Judah have as many gods as they have cities, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have set up as many altars for sacrifices to that disgusting god Baal as there are streets in the city. International Standard Version Judah, you have as many gods as you have towns, and you have set up as many altars to the shameful idols as there are streets in Jerusalem. You burn incense to Baal on these altars. Majority Standard Bible Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up?the altars to burn incense to Baal?are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.? NET Bible This is in spite of the fact that the people of Judah have as many gods as they have towns and the citizens of Jerusalem have set up as many altars to sacrifice to that disgusting god, Baal, as they have streets in the city!' New Heart English Bible For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.' Webster's Bible Translation For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal. World English Bible For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.’ Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionFor the number of your cities have been your gods, O Judah, "" And [for] the number of the streets of Jerusalem You have placed altars to a shameful thing, "" Altars to make incense to Ba‘al. Young's Literal Translation For -- the number of thy cities have been thy gods, O Judah, And -- the number of the streets of Jerusalem Ye have placed altars to a shameful thing, Altars to make perfume to Baal. Smith's Literal Translation For from the numbering of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and from the numbering of the streets of Jerusalem, ye set up altars to shame, altars to burn incense to Baal. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleFor according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda: and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem thou hast set up altars of confusion, altars to offer sacrifice to Baalim. Catholic Public Domain Version For according to the number of your cities, so were your gods, O Judah. And according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem, so did you establish altars of confusion, altars to offer libations to Baal. New American Bible For as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah! As many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars for sacrifice to Baal. New Revised Standard Version For your gods have become as many as your towns, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars to shame you have set up, altars to make offerings to Baal. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Because your gods have been according to the number of your cities, Yehuda. By the number of the streets of Jerusalem, you set up altars for disgrace, altars to present incense to Baal OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to offer unto Baal. Brenton Septuagint Translation For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to burn incense to Baal. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Broken Covenant…12Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster. 13Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up— the altars to burn incense to Baal— are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’ 14As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.… Cross References Hosea 4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone! 2 Kings 17:10-12 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. / They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger. / They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.” Isaiah 2:8 Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made. Deuteronomy 32:16-17 They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations. / They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear. 1 Kings 11:33 For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did. Ezekiel 16:24-25 you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square. / At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by. 2 Chronicles 28:23-25 He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, and he said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel. / Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem. / In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers. Judges 10:13-14 But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you. / Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.” Isaiah 57:5-7 who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? / Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these? / On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices. 1 Corinthians 8:5-6 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords), / yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist. Acts 17:16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols. Romans 1:23-25 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. / Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. / They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. 1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. 1 Corinthians 10:19-20 Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? / No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. Galatians 4:8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. Treasury of Scripture For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal. For according. Jeremiah 2:28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. Jeremiah 3:1,2 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD… Deuteronomy 32:16,17 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger… up altars. Jeremiah 19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind: Jeremiah 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. 2 Kings 21:4,5 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name… shameful thing. Jump to Previous Altars Baal Ba'al Burn Burning Cities Gods Incense Jerusalem Judah Offer Perfumes Shame Shameful Street StreetsJump to Next Altars Baal Ba'al Burn Burning Cities Gods Incense Jerusalem Judah Offer Perfumes Shame Shameful Street StreetsJeremiah 11 1. Jeremiah proclaims God's covenant;8. rebukes the peoples' disobeying thereof; 11. prophesies evils to come upon them; 18. and upon the men of Anathoth, for conspiring to kill him. Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah This phrase highlights the rampant idolatry that plagued Judah. The Hebrew word for "gods" here is "אֱלֹהִים" (elohim), which can refer to the true God or false gods depending on the context. In this case, it underscores the multitude of idols worshipped by the people. Historically, Judah was a land with many cities, each potentially having its own local deity or idol, reflecting a departure from the worship of Yahweh. This proliferation of gods indicates a deep spiritual crisis and a violation of the first commandment, which calls for exclusive worship of the one true God. and the altars of shame you have set up— the altars to burn incense to Baal— are as many as the streets of Jerusalem Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Your godsאֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative are הָי֥וּ (hā·yū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be indeed כִּ֚י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction as numerous מִסְפַּ֣ר (mis·par) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration as your cities, עָרֶ֔יךָ (‘ā·re·ḵā) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 5892: Excitement O Judah, יְהוּדָ֑ה (yə·hū·ḏāh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites and the altars מִזְבְּחוֹת֙ (miz·bə·ḥō·wṯ) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4196: An altar you have set up שַׂמְתֶּ֤ם (śam·tem) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set to shame— לַבֹּ֔שֶׁת (lab·bō·šeṯ) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 1322: Shame, shameful thing the altars מִזְבְּח֖וֹת (miz·bə·ḥō·wṯ) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4196: An altar to burn incense לְקַטֵּ֥ר (lə·qaṭ·ṭêr) Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's 6999: To smoke, turn into fragrance by fire to Baal— לַבָּֽעַל׃ (lab·bā·‘al) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 1168: Baal -- a heathen god are as many וּמִסְפַּ֞ר (ū·mis·par) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration as the streets חֻצ֣וֹת (ḥu·ṣō·wṯ) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors of Jerusalem. יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם (yə·rū·šā·lim) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 3389: Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel Links Jeremiah 11:13 NIVJeremiah 11:13 NLT Jeremiah 11:13 ESV Jeremiah 11:13 NASB Jeremiah 11:13 KJV Jeremiah 11:13 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 11:13 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 11:13 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 11:13 French Bible Jeremiah 11:13 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 11:13 For according to the number of your (Jer.) |
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