Jeremiah 22:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the Lord. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He judged and defended the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not [all] this [what it means] to know and recognize Me? says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah. Common English Bible He defended the rights of the poor and needy; then it went well. Isn’t that what it means to know me? declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version He judged the case of the poor and the indigent for their good. Was this not because he knew me, says the Lord? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good. Was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord? |
“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.
For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save them from those who would condemn them to death.
O continue your steadfast love to those who know you and your salvation to the upright of heart!
And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.
they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.
but let those who boast boast in this, that they understand and know me, that I am the Lord; I act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the Lord.
They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth, for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.
He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?
And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
“I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
Then they said to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
There is no Holy One like the Lord, no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.