Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Slanderous men have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have committed acts of lewdness.

King James Version

In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

Holman Bible

There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines; they commit immoral acts within you.

International Standard Version

Slanderous men live among you, intent on shedding blood. They've eaten at the top of mountain shrines. They've crafted plans to do evil things among you.

A Conservative Version

Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood, and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.

American Standard Version

Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.

Amplified

In you are men who slander for the purpose of shedding blood, and in your presence they have eaten [food offered to idols] at the mountain shrines; in your midst they have committed acts of lewdness.

Bible in Basic English

In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect.

Darby Translation

In thee there have been slanderous men to shed blood; and in thee have they eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness;

Julia Smith Translation

Men of slander were in thee to pour forth blood: and they ate upon the mountains in thee: they did wickedness in the midst of thee.

King James 2000

In you are men that slander to shed blood: and in you they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Slanderous men are {among you} to shed blood, and they, {among you}, eat upon the mountains; they do wickedness in the midst of you.

Modern King James verseion

In you are men of slander to shed blood; and in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they do unchaste acts.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Murderers are there in thee, that shed blood, and eat upon the hills, and in thee they use unhappiness.

NET Bible

Slanderous men shed blood within you. Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; they commit obscene acts among you.

New Heart English Bible

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

The Emphasized Bible

Slanders, have arisen in thee For the sake of shedding blood,- And unto the mountains, have they eaten in thee, Lewdness, have they practised in the midst of thee:

Webster

In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

World English Bible

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.

Youngs Literal Translation

Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wickedness they have done in thy midst.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In thee are men
אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

רכיל 
Rakiyl 
Usage: 6

to shed
שׁפך 
Shaphak 
Usage: 115

דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

and in thee they eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

in the midst
תּוך 
Tavek 
Usage: 419

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Highlighting The Sins And The Judgments Of Israel

8 Thou hast despised my holy things and hast profaned my sabbaths. 9 Slanderous men have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have committed acts of lewdness. 10 In thee they have discovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee they have forced the unclean menstruous woman.


Cross References

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shalt not travel about as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the LORD.

Hosea 4:10

For they shall eat and not be satisfied; they shall commit whoredom and shall not increase because they have quit showing hospitality unto the LORD.

Hosea 4:14

I will not visit upon your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor upon your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery: for they offer with whores, and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes; therefore the people without understanding shall fall.

Ezekiel 16:43

Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth but hast provoked me to anger in all this; therefore, behold I also have recompensed thy way upon thine head, said the Lord GOD; for thou hast not even thought regarding all thine abominations.

Ezekiel 18:6

that he does not eat upon the mountains, neither lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither defile his neighbour's wife, neither come near to the menstruous woman,

Ezekiel 18:11

and that does not do any of those duties, but, on the other hand, he does eat upon the mountains, or defiles his neighbour's wife,

Hosea 4:2

By swearing and lying and murdering and stealing and committing adultery, they prevailed, and blood touches blood.

Exodus 20:16

Thou shalt not give false testimony against thy neighbour.

Exodus 23:1

Thou shalt not admit a false rumour; put not thine hand with the wicked to be a false witness.

Judges 20:6

Then I took my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the possession of Israel, for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

1 Kings 21:10-13

and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out and stone him that he may die.

Psalm 50:20

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother; thou didst slander thine own mother's son.

Psalm 101:5

Whosoever secretly slanders his neighbour, I will cut off; he that has a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

Psalm 106:28

They also joined themselves unto Baalpeor and ate the sacrifices for the dead.

Proverbs 10:18

He that hides hatred has lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a talebearer seem smooth, but they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Proverbs 26:22

The words of a talebearer seem smooth, but they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all rebellious princes; they walk with deception: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

Jeremiah 9:4

Take heed each one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

Jeremiah 37:13-15

And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 38:4-6

Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in this city and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them; for this man does not seek the peace of this people, but the hurt.

Ezekiel 18:15

that he does not eat upon the mountains, neither lifts up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defiles his neighbour's wife,

Ezekiel 24:13

In thy perverse filthiness thou shalt die because I have cleansed thee, and thou didst not cleanse thyself from thy uncleanness; thou shalt never cleanse thyself again, until I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

Hosea 6:9

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the council of priests murder in the way by common accord; for they put the abomination into effect.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers as an oven heated by the baker who shall cease from waking after he has kneaded the dough until it is leavened.

Matthew 26:59

Now the princes of the priests and the elders and all the council sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

Acts 6:11-13

Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.

Acts 24:5

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and prince of the seditious sect of the Nazarenes,

Acts 24:13

neither can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.

1 Corinthians 10:18-21

Behold Israel after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices participants of the altar?

Revelation 12:9-10

And the great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, who is called Devil and the Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

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