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But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mingled wine to Destiny;
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The Idols of Luck and Fate
The people are condemned for forsaking God to worship pagan deities named 'Gad' and 'Meni.' Most scholars identify these as gods of 'Fortune' and 'Destiny,' likely associated with the planets Jupiter and Venus. Instead of trusting in God's sovereign care, they turned to astrology and luck.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But you are they who forsake the Lord - Or rather, ‘You who forsake Yahweh, and who forget my holy mountain, I will number to the sword.…
19th Century
Anglican
That forget my holy mountain ...—The words imply, like Isaiah 65:3-5, the abandonment of the worship of the Temple for a …
16th Century
Protestant
But you forsakers of Jehovah, who forget the mountain of my holiness. That hypocrites may not abuse these promises, or think that what is …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But you are they that forsake the Lord Here the Lord returns to the body of the people again, the unbelievers and re…
Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews who believed, and of those who persisted in unbelief, are set against one another. T…
13th Century
Catholic
They have sought me. Here the judge, God, gives the sentence of separation between the wicked and the good regarding the recepti…
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