Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
They became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not.
New American Standard Bible
They also
They do not plead the cause,
The cause of the
And they do not
King James Version
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Holman Bible
They have also excelled in evil matters.
They have not taken up cases,
such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper,
and they have not defended the rights of the needy.
International Standard Version
and have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to their evil deeds. They don't argue the case of the orphan to secure justice. They don't defend the rights of the poor.
A Conservative Version
They have grown fat. They shine. Yea, they overflow in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper. And they do not judge the right of the needy.
American Standard Version
They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Amplified
‘They are fat and they are sleek (prosperous),
They
They do not plead the cause,
The cause of the orphan, so that they [the wicked] may prosper,
And they do not defend the rights of the poor.
Bible in Basic English
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
Darby Translation
They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge.
King James 2000
They have grown fat, they shine: yea, they pass over the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not defend.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend.
Modern King James verseion
They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
hereof are they fat and wealthy, and are run away from me with shameful blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity.
NET Bible
That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.
New Heart English Bible
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they do not judge the right of the needy.
The Emphasized Bible
They have waxed fat, they shine Yea they have overpassed the records of wickedness. The right, have they not determined, the right of the fatherless that they might prosper, - Yea justice to the helpless, have they not decreed.
Webster
They have become fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
World English Bible
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.
Youngs Literal Translation
They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.
Themes
Deceit » Evil of » Leads to pride and oppression
Deceit » Leads » To pride and oppression
Fatherless » The wicked » Judge not for
Fatherless » God will » Punish those who judge not
Fulness » Spiritual » Warnings against worldly fulness
Prosperity » Perils of » Warnings against worldly fulness
Prosperity » Of the wicked, general references to
Sin » Increment of » Seen in the history of israel
Sin » Progressive » Seen in the history of israel
Sins » Increment » Seen in the history of israel
Interlinear
Ra`
Tsalach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 5:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
27 As a cane full of birds, so their houses full of deceit: for this they were magnified and they will be rich. 28 They became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not. 29 For these things shall I not review? says Jehovah: or shall not my soul be avenged upon a nation such as this?
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15
And Jeshurun will be fat and will tread down: Thou wert fat, thou wert thick, thou wert covered; And he will reject God having made him, And he will despise the Rock of his deliverance.
Isaiah 1:23
Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.
Zechariah 7:10
And the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the poor, ye shall not oppress; and ye shall not purpose evil in your heart a man to his brother.
Psalm 73:12
Behold, these the unjust, and they being secure of the world increased riches.
Jeremiah 7:6
Ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan and the widow, and innocent blood ye shall not pour out in this place, and after other gods ye shall not go, for evil to you;
Job 12:6
The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand
Job 15:27-28
For he covered his face with his fat, and he will make fatness upon the flank
Job 21:23-24
This shall die in the strength of his fulness, altogether tranquil and at rest
Job 29:12-14
For I shall deliver the poor crying, and the orphan, and none helping to him.
Psalm 72:4
He shall judge the poor of the people, and save to the sons of the needy, and he will break in pieces him oppressing.
Psalm 73:6-7
For this, pride surrounded them as a neck-chain; the dress of violence will cover to them.
Psalm 82:2-4
How long will ye judge wickedness, and ye will lift up the faces of the unjust? Silence.
Psalm 119:70
Their heart was fat as fatness; I delighted in thy law.
Jeremiah 2:33
How wilt thou make good thy way to seek love? for this also thou didst teach the evil ones thy ways.
Jeremiah 12:1
Just art thou, O Jehovah, for I will strive to thee: surely I will speak judgments with thee: Wherefore did the way of the evil prosper? all they acting faithlessly with treachery were secure?
Jeremiah 22:15-19
Shalt thou reign, for thou art kindled with cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice, then it was well to him?
Ezekiel 5:6-7
And she will change my judgments for injustice more than the nations, and my laws more than the lands which are round about her: for they rejected upon my judgments, and my laws they walked not in them.
Ezekiel 16:47-52
And thou wentest not in their ways, and thou didst not their abominations: loathing as a little, and thou wilt be corrupted above them in all thy ways.
Amos 4:1
Hear this word, ye heifers of Bashan, which are upon the mountain of Shomeron, oppressing the poor, breaking in pieces the needy, saying to their lords, Bring, and we will drink.
1 Corinthians 5:1
In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife.
James 5:4-5
Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.