If a prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, 'This is a message from the LORD,' I will punish them and their households.
NIV
And as for the prophet, the priest, or [any of these] the people, whoever [in mockery calls the word of the Lord a burden and] says, The burden of the Lord, I will even visit in wrath and punish that man and his house.
AMP
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
KJV
"I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them."
NIV
I will scatter them also among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword among them and after them until I have consumed them.
AMP
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
KJV
But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, house of Israel, have been unfaithful to me," declares the LORD."
NIV
Surely, as a wife treacherously and faithlessly departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously and faithlessly with Me, O house of Israel, says the Lord.
AMP
Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
KJV
In that day you will say: "Give praise to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted."
NIV
And in that day you will say, Give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name and by means of His name [in solemn entreaty]; declare and make known His deeds among the peoples of the earth, proclaim that His name is exalted!
AMP
And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
KJV
In that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.
NIV
In that day men shall cast away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship
AMP
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
KJV
