Romans 11:3 ““Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am…”

Romans 11:3

“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well” ?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

World English Bible

“Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.”

American Standard Version

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

Geneva Bible 1599

Lord, they haue killed thy Prophets, and digged downe thine altars: and I am left alone, and they seeke my life?

Darby Translation

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I have been left alone, and they seek my life.

Young's Literal Translation

'Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;'

Bible in Basic English

Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life.

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Cross references

“Lord”

1 Kings 19:10–18 1 Kings 18:13 Nehemiah 9:26 1 Kings 18:4 Jeremiah 2:30

1 Kings 19:10–18 · BSB

“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are…

1 Kings 18:13 · BSB

Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.

Nehemiah 9:26 · BSB

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

1 Kings 18:4 · BSB

for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)

Jeremiah 2:30 · BSB

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

“digged”

1 Kings 18:30 1 Kings 18:31

1 Kings 18:30 · BSB

Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people approached him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.

1 Kings 18:31 · BSB

And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:

4And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

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