Jeremiah 22:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²³ Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon [Jerusalem, whose palaces are made of Lebanon's trees], you who make your nest among the cedars, how you will groan and how pitiable you will be when pangs come upon you, pain like that of a woman in childbirth! [I Kings 7:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

Common English Bible

²³ You who live in Lebanon, nestled in cedar, who will pity you when you are overcome in pain, like that of childbirth?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ You who sit in Lebanon, and who nest in the cedars, in what way did you mourn when suffering came to you, like the suffering of a woman giving birth?

Jeremiah 22:23 Cross References

Jeremiah 21:13

And I will prepare against thee the destroyer and his weapons: and they shall cut down thy chosen cedars, and shall cast them headlong into the fire.

Jeremiah 22:6

4 Who saith: I will build me a wide house and large chambers: who openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them with vermilion.

Jeremiah 3:21

Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can quench it: because of the wickedness of your thoughts.

Jeremiah 48:28

6 Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes: and my heart a sound like pipes for the men of the brick wall: because he hath done more than he could, therefore they have perished.

Jeremiah 49:16

4 Damascus is undone, she is put to flight, trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 6:24

Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that enter in at these gates, to adore the Lord.

Ezekiel 17:3

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Hosea 5:15

Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.

Hosea 7:14

For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.

Amos 9:2

0 All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.

Obadiah 1:4

2 But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the day of his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of distress.

Habakkuk 2:9

7 For the iniquity of Libanus shall cover thee, and the ravaging of beasts shall terrify them because of the blood of men, and the iniquity of the land, and of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

Numbers 24:21

And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,