◄ Isaiah 66:17 ►
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Good News Translation
The LORD says, "The end is near for those who purify themselves for pagan worship, who go in procession to sacred gardens, and who eat pork and mice and other disgusting foods.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following the one in the center, eating the flesh of pigs, vermin, and rodents, shall come to an end together, says the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
Some of you get yourselves ready and go to a garden to worship a foreign goddess. You eat the meat of pigs, lizards, and mice. But I, the LORD, will destroy you for this.

New American Bible
Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who stands within, eating pig’s flesh, abominable things, and mice, shall all together come to an end, with their deeds and purposes—oracle of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

sanctify

Isaiah 1:29 For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

Isaiah 65:3,4 A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks. . . .

behind one tree in the midst.

Leviticus 11:2-8 Say to the children of Israel: These are the animals which you are to eat of all the living things of the earth. . . .

Deuteronomy 14:3-8 Eat not the things that are unclean. . . .

Context
God's Final Judgments Against the Wicked
…16For the Lord shall judge by fire, and by his sword unto all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many. 17They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.18But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may gather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory.…
Cross References
Leviticus 11:7
And the swine, which, though it divideth the hoof, cheweth not the cud.

Isaiah 1:28
And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.

Isaiah 1:29
For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

Isaiah 1:31
And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.

Isaiah 65:3
A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

Isaiah 65:4
That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.

Ezekiel 4:14
And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into my mouth.

Isaiah 66:16
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