And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you.
NIV
And they yearn for you while they pray for you, because of the surpassing measure of God's grace (His favor and mercy and spiritual blessing which is shown forth) in you.
AMP
And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
KJV
Am I still to forget your ill-gotten treasures, you wicked house, and the short ephah, which is accursed?
NIV
Are there not still treasures gained by wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure [a false measure for grain] that is abominable and accursed?
AMP
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
KJV
Just as you drank on my holy hill, so all the nations will drink continually; they will drink and drink and be as if they had never been.
NIV
For as you [Edom] have drunk upon the mountain of My holiness [desecrating it in the wild revelry of the destroyers], so shall all the nations drink continually [in turn, of My wrath]; yes, they shall drink, talk foolishly, and swallow down [the full measure of punishment] and they shall be [destroyed] as though they had not been. [Rev. 16:14-16.]AMP
For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
KJV
If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent – not to put it too severely.
NIV
But if someone [the one among you who committed incest] has caused [all this] grief and pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure, not to put it too severely, [he has distressed] all of you.
AMP
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
KJV
All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone cut to size and trimmed with a saw on their inner and outer faces.
NIV
All were of costly stones hewn according to measure, sawed with saws back and front, even from foundation to coping, and from the outside to the great court.
AMP
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
KJV
Discipline me, LORD, but only in due measure – not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.
NIV
O Lord, correct, instruct, and chastise me, but with judgment and in just measure--not in Your anger, lest You diminish me and bring me to nothing.
AMP
O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
KJV
In their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.
NIV
Forbidding and hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles (the nations) that they may be saved. So as always they fill up [to the brim the measure of] their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last [completely and forever]! [Gen. 15:16.]AMP
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
KJV
