Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
in the wilderness,
I would abandon my people
and depart from them,
for they are all adulterers,
a solemn assembly of treacherous people.
New American Standard Bible
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are
An assembly of
King James Version
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
International Standard Version
Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.
A Conservative Version
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
American Standard Version
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Amplified
Oh that I had in the wilderness
A lodging place (a mere shelter) for wayfaring men,
That I might leave my people
And go away from them!
For they are all adulterers [worshiping idols instead of the Lord],
[They are] an assembly of treacherous men [of weak character, men without integrity].
Bible in Basic English
If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
Darby Translation
Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Julia Smith Translation
Who will give me in the desert a lodging-place of travelers? and I will leave my people and go from them, for they all commit adultery; an assembly of those acting faithlessly.
King James 2000
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men; that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Oh that I had} in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers, that I may leave my people and go from them, for all of them [are] adulterers, a band of traitors.
Modern King James verseion
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for traveling men, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Would God that I had a cottage somewhere far from folk, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort.
NET Bible
I wish I had a lodging place in the desert where I could spend some time like a weary traveler. Then I would desert my people and walk away from them because they are all unfaithful to God, a congregation of people that has been disloyal to him.
New Heart English Bible
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them. For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."
The Emphasized Bible
Oh that I had in the wilderness, a wayfarers lodge, That I might leave my people, and go from them, - For they all, are Adulterers, An assemblage of traitors;
Webster
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of way-faring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
World English Bible
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Youngs Literal Translation
Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.
Topics
Interlinear
Nathan
`azab
Yalak
Na'aph
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 9:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament Over Judah
1
my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night
over the slain of my dear
in the wilderness,
I would abandon my people
and depart from them,
for they are all adulterers,
a solemn assembly of treacherous people.
lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land,
for they proceed from one evil to another,
and they do not take Me into account.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:7-8
Your children have abandoned Me
and sworn by those who are not gods.
I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery;
they gashed themselves
Jeremiah 23:10
the land mourns because of the curse,
and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.
Their way of life
and their power is not rightly used
Hosea 4:2
and adultery
one act of bloodshed follows another.
Jeremiah 12:1
even if I bring a case against You.
Yet, I wish to contend with You:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the treacherous live at ease?
Jeremiah 12:6
even they were treacherous to you;
even they have cried out loudly after you.
Do not have confidence in them,
though they speak well of you.
Hosea 7:4
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
Psalm 55:6-8
I would fly away and find rest.
Psalm 120:5-7
that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!
Ezekiel 22:10-11
Men within you have sexual intercourse with their father’s wife and violate women during their menstrual impurity.
Hosea 5:7
indeed, they gave birth to illegitimate children.
Now the New Moon
along with their fields.
Hosea 6:7
there they have betrayed Me.
Micah 7:1-7
For I am like one who—
when the summer fruit has been gathered
after the gleaning of the grape harvest
finds no grape cluster to eat,
no early fig, which I crave.
Zephaniah 3:4
treacherous men.
Her priests profane the sanctuary;
they do violence to instruction.
Malachi 2:11
Judah has acted treacherously, and a detestable
James 4:4
Adulteresses!