Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “’This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! New Living Translation This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Take your burnt offerings and your other sacrifices and eat them yourselves! English Standard Version Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. Berean Standard Bible This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! King James Bible Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. New King James Version Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. New American Standard Bible This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. NASB 1995 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. NASB 1977 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. Legacy Standard Bible Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. Amplified Bible Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. Christian Standard Bible This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves, Holman Christian Standard Bible This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves, American Standard Version Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Add their burnt offerings to their sacrifices and eat meat which I did not speak to their fathers Brenton Septuagint Translation Thus saith the Lord, Gather your whole-burnt-offerings with your meat-offerings, and eat flesh. Contemporary English Version The LORD told me to say to the people of Judah: I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, but I won't accept sacrifices from you. So don't even bother bringing them to me. You might as well just cook the meat for yourselves. Douay-Rheims Bible Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh. English Revised Version Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. GOD'S WORD® Translation "This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the meat. Good News Translation "My people, some sacrifices you burn completely on the altar, and some you are permitted to eat. But what I, the LORD, say is that you might as well eat them all. International Standard Version This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. JPS Tanakh 1917 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. Literal Standard Version Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. Majority Standard Bible This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! New American Bible Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Heap your burnt offerings upon your sacrifices; eat up the meat! NET Bible The LORD said to the people of Judah, "The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says: 'You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too! New Revised Standard Version Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. New Heart English Bible Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat. Webster's Bible Translation Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh. World English Bible Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. Young's Literal Translation Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Your burnt-offerings add to your sacrifices, And eat ye flesh. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Judah's Idolatry Persists…20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished. 21This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! 22For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,… Cross References Isaiah 1:11 "What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?" says the LORD. "I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. Isaiah 43:23 You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense. Jeremiah 6:20 What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me." Jeremiah 14:12 Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague." Ezekiel 33:25 Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? Hosea 8:13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt. Amos 5:22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. Treasury of Scripture Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Put. Jeremiah 6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats… Hosea 8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. Jump to Previous Add Ahead Almighty Armies Beasts Burned Burnt Burnt-Offerings Eat Flesh Food Hosts Israel Meat Offerings Sacrifices WordsJump to Next Add Ahead Almighty Armies Beasts Burned Burnt Burnt-Offerings Eat Flesh Food Hosts Israel Meat Offerings Sacrifices WordsJeremiah 7 1. Jeremiah is sent to call to true repentance, to prevent the Jews' captivity.8. He rejects their vain confidence, 12. by the example of Shiloh. 17. He threatens them for their idolatry. 21. He rejects the sacrifices of the disobedient. 29. He exhorts to mourn for their abominations in Tophet; 32. and the judgments for the same. (21) Put your burnt offerings.--i.e., "Add one kind of sacrifice to another. Offer the victim, and then partake of the sacrificial feast. All is fruitless, unless there be the true conditions of acceptance, repentance, and holiness."Verses 21-28. - Jeremiah dispels the illusion that God's claims are satisfied by a merely formal service. Verse 21. - Put your burnt offerings, etc. Throw all your sacrifices into a mass, and eat them at your pleasure. Ye have my perfect permission, for they are of no religions value. According to the Law, the burnt offerings were to be entirely consumed by fire, while the other sacrifices were mostly eaten by the offerers and by their friends. There is a touch of contempt in the phrase, eat flesh; they are merely pieces of flesh, and ye may eat them. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew This is whatכֹּ֥ה (kōh) Adverb Strong's 3541: Like this, thus, here, now the LORD יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel of Hosts, צְבָא֖וֹת (ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ) Noun - common plural Strong's 6635: A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign the God אֱלֹהֵ֣י (’ĕ·lō·hê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative of Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc says: אָמַ֛ר (’ā·mar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say ‘Add your burnt offerings עֹלוֹתֵיכֶ֛ם (‘ō·lō·w·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 5930: Whole burnt offering to עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against your other sacrifices זִבְחֵיכֶ֖ם (ziḇ·ḥê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 2077: A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice and eat וְאִכְל֥וּ (wə·’iḵ·lū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 398: To eat the meat yourselves! בָשָֽׂר׃ (ḇā·śār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man Links Jeremiah 7:21 NIVJeremiah 7:21 NLT Jeremiah 7:21 ESV Jeremiah 7:21 NASB Jeremiah 7:21 KJV Jeremiah 7:21 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 7:21 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 7:21 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 7:21 French Bible Jeremiah 7:21 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 7:21 Thus says Yahweh of Armies the God (Jer.) |