Jeremiah 44:4

Geneva Bible

Howbeit I sent vnto you all my seruats the Prophets rising earely, and sending them, saying, Oh doe not this abominable thing that I hate.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So I sent you all my servants the prophets time and time again, saying, ‘Don’t commit this detestable action that I hate.’

Hebrew Names Version
However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing that I hate.

King James Version
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

English Standard Version
Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!'

New American Standard Bible
'Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying, "Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate."

New Century Version
I sent all my servants, the prophets, to you again and again. By them I said to you, ‘Don't do this terrible thing that I hate.'

Amplified Bible
'Yet I sent to you all My servants the prophets, again and again, saying, "Oh, do not do this shamefully vile thing which I hate."

World English Bible
However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing that I hate.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yet I sent you all My slaves the prophets, rising up early and sending, saying, "Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate."

Berean Standard Bible
Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: 'Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.'

Contemporary English Version
Time after time I sent my servants the prophets to tell the people of Judah how much I hated their disgusting sins. The prophets warned them to stop sinning,

Complete Jewish Bible
I had sent you all my servants the prophets, sent them frequently, with the message, "Don't do this horrible thing which I hate!"

Darby Translation
And I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing which I hate!

Easy-to-Read Version
I sent my servants, the prophets, to those people again and again. They spoke my message and said to the people, "Don't do this terrible thing. I hate for you to worship idols."

George Lamsa Translation
And I sent to them all my servants the prophets, in advance, saying. Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.

Good News Translation
I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate.

Lexham English Bible
And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending over and over again, saying, "Please, you must not do this detestable thing that I hate."

Literal Translation
And, I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How be it, I sent vnto them my seruautes all the prophetes: I rose vp early, I sent vnto them, and gaue them warninge: O do no soch abhominable thinges, & thinges that I hate

American Standard Version
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

Bible in Basic English
And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Howbeit I sent unto you all My servants the prophets, sending them betimes and often, saying: Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

King James Version (1611)
Howbeit I sent vnto you all my seruants the Prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh doe not this abominable thing that I hate.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howbeit I sent vnto them my seruauntes all the prophetes, I rose vp early, I sent vnto them and gaue them warning, O do no suche abhominable thinges, and thinges that I hate.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Now Jeremias came and went through the midst of the city: for they had not put him into the house of the prison.

English Revised Version
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y sente to you alle my seruauntis profetis; and Y roos bi nyyte, and sente, and seide, Nyle ye do the word of sich abhomynacioun.

Update Bible Version
Nevertheless I sent to you all my slaves the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this disgusting thing that I hate.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

New English Translation
I sent my servants the prophets to you people over and over again warning you not to do this disgusting thing I hate.

New King James Version
However I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, "Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!"

New Living Translation
"Again and again I sent my servants, the prophets, to plead with them, ‘Don't do these horrible things that I hate so much.'

New Life Bible
Yet I sent you all My servants who spoke for Me again and again, saying, "O, do not do this very sinful thing which I hate!"

New Revised Standard
Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, "I beg you not to do this abominable thing that I hate!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
yet I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, betimes sending them, saying, Do not, I pray you, commit this abominable thing, which I hate!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate.

Revised Standard Version
Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, 'Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!'

Young's Literal Translation
`And I send unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: I pray you, do not this abomination that I have hated --

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, again and again, saying, "Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate."

Contextual Overview

¹ The worde that came to Ieremiah concerning all the Iewes, which dwell in the lande of Egypt, and remained at Migdol and at Tahpanhes, & at Noph, & in the coutry of Pathros, saying, ² Thus sayeth the Lorde of hostes the God of Israel, Yee haue seene all the euill that I haue brought vpon Ierusalem, and vpon all the cities of Iudah: and beholde, this day they are desolate, and no man dwelleth therein, ³ Because of their wickednes which they haue comitted, to prouoke me to anger in yt they went to burne incense, & to serue other gods, who they knew not, neither they nor you nor your fathers. ⁴ Howbeit I sent vnto you all my seruats the Prophets rising earely, and sending them, saying, Oh doe not this abominable thing that I hate. ⁵ But they would not heare nor incline their eare to turne from their wickednes, and to burne no more incense vnto other gods. ⁶ Wherefore my wrath, & mine anger was powred foorth and was kindled in the cities of Iudah, and in the streetes of Ierusalem, and they are desolate, and wasted, as appeareth this day. ⁷ Therefore now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Wherfore commit ye this great euill against your soules, to cut off from you man and woman, childe and suckling out of Iudah, and leaue you none to remaine? ⁸ In that yee prouoke mee vnto wrath with the woorkes of your hands, burning incense vnto other Gods in the lande of Egypt whither yee be gone to dwell: that yee might bring destruction vnto your selues, and that ye might be a curse and a reproch among all nations of the earth. ⁹ Haue yee forgotten the wickednes of your fathers, and the wickednesse of the Kings of Iudah and the wickednesse of their wiues and your owne wickednes & the wickednes of your wiues, which they haue committed in the land of Iudah and in the streetes of Ierusalem? ¹⁰ They are not humbled vnto this day, neither haue they feared nor walked in my lawe nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I sent: Jeremiah 7:13, Jeremiah 7:25, Jeremiah 25:3, Jeremiah 25:4, Jeremiah 26:5, Jeremiah 29:19, Jeremiah 32:33, Jeremiah 35:17, 2 Chronicles 36:15, Zechariah 7:7

this: Jeremiah 16:18, Ezekiel 8:10, Ezekiel 16:36, Ezekiel 16:47, 1 Peter 4:3, Revelation 17:4, Revelation 17:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:10 - displeased Leviticus 18:24 - Defile Deuteronomy 5:29 - O that there Deuteronomy 16:22 - which 1 Kings 21:26 - very abominably 2 Kings 17:15 - testimonies 2 Chronicles 24:19 - Yet he sent 2 Chronicles 33:10 - General Proverbs 5:12 - and my Proverbs 15:9 - The way Jeremiah 35:15 - Return Jeremiah 36:31 - will bring Ezekiel 3:7 - Israel will Ezekiel 3:19 - if thou Ezekiel 5:11 - detestable Daniel 9:6 - have we Hosea 7:12 - as their Zechariah 1:4 - unto Zechariah 8:17 - things Matthew 23:37 - how Mark 12:2 - a servant Mark 12:3 - and sent Luke 13:34 - and ye Luke 20:10 - sent John 4:38 - other John 8:2 - early Romans 10:21 - a disobedient 2 Corinthians 5:20 - as Revelation 14:9 - the third

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 2:16
So when all the men of warre were consumed and dead from among the people:

1 Samuel 24:17
And sayd to Dauid, Thou art more righteous then I: for thou hast rendred me good, and I haue rendred thee euill.

2 Chronicles 20:11
Behold, I say, they reward vs, in comming to cast vs out of thine inheritance, which thou hast caused vs to inherit.

Psalms 35:12
They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule.

Psalms 109:5
And they haue rewarded me euil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

Proverbs 17:13
He that rewardeth euil for good, euil shall not depart from his house.

John 10:32
Iesus answered them, Many good workes haue I shewed you from my Father: for which of these workes doe ye stone me?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit, I sent unto you all my servants the prophets,.... As many as he raised up, and employed in the work and service of prophesying; and these were many; and as many as they were, he sent them to them, one after another, to warn them of their sin and danger; but all to no purpose; which was a further aggravation of their wickedness: nay, though he was

rising early, and sending [them]; was very early in his messages to them; gave them timely warning, and let slip no opportunity of admonishing them; and this he did constantly; see Jeremiah 7:13;

saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate; all sin is abominable in itself, and hateful to God, especially idolatry; and therefore should not be done; it should be abominable to men, and hateful to them, because it is so to God; and after such a remonstrance as this, to commit it must be very aggravating and provoking.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Howbeit I sent - And I sent.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 44:4. O, do not this abominable thing — A strong specimen of affectionate entreaty. One of the finest figures of poetry, when judiciously managed, the anthropopathia, the ascribing human passions to God, is often used by this prophet: so God is said to grieve, to mourn, to have his bowels moved with compassion, to repent, to be angry, c. Here he is represented as tenderly expostulating: O, do not or, I entreat you, do not that abominable thing which I hate.

1. Do it not: your God commands.

2. O, do it not: your Father entreats.

3. It is an abominable thing, and should not be done.

4. I hate it, and on that account ye should abstain from it.