Parallel Verses

King James 2000

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD.

New American Standard Bible

“For both prophet and priest are polluted;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.

King James Version

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

Holman Bible

because both prophet and priest are ungodly,
even in My house I have found their evil.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

International Standard Version

Indeed, both priest and prophet are ungodly. Even in my house I find evil," declares the LORD.

A Conservative Version

For both prophet and priest are profane. Yea, in my house I have found their wickedness, says LORD.

American Standard Version

for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.

Amplified


“For both [false] prophet and priest are ungodly (profane, polluted);
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the Lord.

Bible in Basic English

For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.

Darby Translation

For both prophet and priest are profane: even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.

Julia Smith Translation

For also the prophets, also the priests were polluted; also in my house I found their evil, says Jehovah.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"For both prophet as well as priest are godless, even in my temple I have found their wickedness," {declares} Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

For both prophet and priest are ungodly; yes, in My house I have found their evil, says Jehovah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"For the prophets and the priests themselves are polluted hypocrites, and their wickedness have I found in my house, sayeth the LORD.

NET Bible

Moreover, the Lord says, "Both the prophets and priests are godless. I have even found them doing evil in my temple!

New Heart English Bible

for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness," says the LORD.

The Emphasized Bible

For both prophet and priest, are profane, - Even in my house, have I found their wickedness, Declareth Yahweh.

Webster

For both prophet and priest are profane; even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

World English Bible

for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.

Youngs Literal Translation

For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נביא 
Nabiy' 
Usage: 315

and priest
כּהן 
Kohen 
Usage: 750

חנף 
Chaneph 
Usage: 11

yea, in my house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

נאם 
N@'um 
Usage: 376

References

Easton

Context Readings

The Unfaithful Prophets

10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their might is not right. 11  For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD. 12 Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their punishment, says the LORD.


Cross References

Jeremiah 6:13

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest everyone deals falsely.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous persons: her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

Jeremiah 7:30

For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for everyone from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 32:34

But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

Ezekiel 8:16

And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshiped the sun toward the east.

Ezekiel 23:39

For when they had slain their children for their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

2 Chronicles 33:5

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 33:7

And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever:

2 Chronicles 36:14

Moreover all the leaders of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much according to all the abominations of the nations; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their own power; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

Jeremiah 7:10-11

And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Jeremiah 11:15

What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.

Jeremiah 23:15

Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the poisonous water: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has profaneness gone forth into all the land.

Ezekiel 7:20

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things from it: therefore have I set it far from them.

Ezekiel 8:5-6

Then he said unto me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now in the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes in the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entrance.

Ezekiel 8:11

And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

Ezekiel 22:25-26

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in her midst.

Matthew 21:12-13

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

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