What does Jeremiah 22:17 mean?
ESV: But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence."
NIV: "But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion."
NASB: 'But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, And on shedding innocent blood, And on practicing oppression and extortion.'
CSB: But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.
NLT: 'But you! You have eyes only for greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly.'
KJV: But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
NKJV: “Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness, For shedding innocent blood, And practicing oppression and violence.”
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