JER 9:2 Parallel View

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ULT Who will give me a lodging place of travelers in the desert, and I would leave my people and walk away from them.
 ⇔ For all of them are adulterers, a company of ones dealing treacherously!

UST I wish that I could leave my people and forget them, and go and live in a shack in the desert,
 ⇔ because they have not remained faithful to Yahweh; they are a mob of people who deceive others.

BSB If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness,
⇔ I would abandon my people and depart from them,
 ⇔ for they are all adulterers,
⇔ a crowd of faithless people.

OEB O that I had in the desert
⇔ A spot such as travellers lodge in;
 ⇔ For then would I leave my people,
⇔ Yea, from them I would go;
 ⇔ For they be all adulterers,
⇔ A company of traitors,
⇔ That bend their tongue like a bow.

WEB 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.

NET 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.

LSV Who gives me in a wilderness
A lodging-place for travelers? And I leave my people, and go from them,
For all of them [are] adulterers,
An assembly of treacherous ones.

FBV I wish I had a temporary shelter in the desert—I would give up on my people and leave them, because they're all adulterers, a bunch of traitors!

T4T I wish that I could leave my people and forget them,
⇔ and go and live in a shack/shelter in the desert,
 ⇔ because they have not remained faithful [MET] to Yahweh;
⇔ they are a mob of people who deceive others.

LEB • [fn] 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.

?:? Literally “Who he gives me”

BBE 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.

MOF No MOF JER book available

JPS (9-1) Oh that I were in the wilderness, in 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.

ASV 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.

DRA Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

YLT 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.

DBY 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.

RV 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.

WBS 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.

KJB 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.
(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. )

BB Woulde God that I had a cottage somewhere farre from folke, that I might leaue my people and go from them, for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort.
(Would God that I had a cottage somewhere far from folke, that I might leave my people and go from them, for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort.)

GNV Oh, that I had in the wildernes a cottage of wayfaring men, that I might leaue my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and an assembly of rebels,
(Oh, that I had in the wilderness a cottage of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and an assembly of rebels, )

CB Wolde God that I had a cotage some where farre from folke, that I might leaue my people, and go from the: for they be all aduoutrers and a shrenckinge sorte.
(Would God that I had a cotage some where far from folke, that I might leave my people, and go from the: for they be all aduoutrers and a shrenckinge sorte.)

WYC Who schal yyue me in to a wildirnesse of dyuerse weigoeris? And I schal forsake my puple, and Y schal go awei fro hem. For whi alle ben auowteris, and the cumpenyes of trespassouris ayens the lawe;
(Who shall give me in to a wilderness of dyuerse weigoeris? And I shall forsake my people, and I shall go away from them. For why all been auowteris, and the cumpenyes of trespassouris against the lawe;)

LUT Sie schießen mit ihren Zungen eitel Lügen und keine Wahrheit und treiben‘s mit Gewalt im Lande und gehen von einer Bosheit zur andern und achten mich nicht, spricht der HErr.
(They/She schießen with your Zungen eitel Lügen and no truth and treiben‘s with Gewalt in_the land and gehen from einer Bosheit zur change and achten me not, spricht the HErr.)

CLV Quis dabit me in solitudine diversorium viatorum, et derelinquam populum meum, et recedam ab eis? quia omnes adulteri sunt, cœtus prævaricatorum.[fn]
(Quis dabit me in solitudine diversorium viatorum, and derelinquam the_people mine, and recedam away eis? because everyone adulteri are, cœtus prævaricatorum.)

9.2 Quis dabit me, etc. Quasi dicat: Melius est habitare in solitudine, quam inter tanta scelera hominum commorari. Unde in Evangelio: Usquequo sustinebo vos? Matth. 17. Et alibi: Oui intelligit sedebit, quoniam tempus pessimum est Thren. III; Mich. 2..

9.2 Quis dabit me, etc. Quasi dicat: Melius it_is to_live in solitudine, how between tanta scelera hominum commorari. Unde in Evangelio: Usquequo sustinebo vos? Matth. 17. And alibi: Oui intelligit sedebit, quoniam tempus pessimum est Thren. III; Mich. 2..

BRN And they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, saith the Lord.

BrLXX καὶ ἐνέτειναν τὴν γλῶσσαν αὐτῶν ὡς τόξον· ψεῦδος, καὶ οὐ πίστις ἐνίσχυσεν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ὅτι ἐκ κακῶν εἰς κακὰ ἐξήλθοσαν, καὶ ἐμὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν, φησὶ Κύριος.
(kai eneteinan taʸn glōssan autōn hōs toxon; pseudos, kai ou pistis enisⱪusen epi taʸs gaʸs, hoti ek kakōn eis kaka exaʸlthosan, kai eme ouk egnōsan, faʸsi Kurios. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

(Occurrence 0) If only someone would give me

(Some words not found in UHB: and,bend DOM tongue,their bow,their lies and=not for,truth prevail in/on_the=earth that/for/because/then/when from,evil to/towards evil proceed and,DOM,me not know declares YHWH )

“I wish someone would give me.” This is still Jeremiah speaking.

(Occurrence 0) a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay

This refers to a building for people traveling in the wilderness, where they can stop and sleep overnight.

(Occurrence 0) abandon my people

Alternate translation: “leave my people”

(Occurrence 0) a band of traitors

Alternate translation: “a group of people who betray other people”

Parallel JER 9:2