Jeremiah 4:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 1 At that time it shall be said to this people, and to Jerusalem: A burning wind is in the ways that are in the desert of the way of the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your ground left uncultivated for a season, so that you may not sow among thorns.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

Common English Bible

³ This is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem: Break up your hard rocky soil; don’t plant among the thorns.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and of Jerusalem: "Break new ground, and do not choose to sow upon thorns.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns.

Jeremiah 4:3 Cross References

Genesis 3:18

8 Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou eat the herbs of the earth.

Exodus 23:11

4 Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.

Hosea 10:12

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be converted.

Matthew 13:22

0 Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.

Matthew 13:7

5 For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Mark 4:7

5 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown, and as soon as they have heard, immediately Satan cometh and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

Luke 8:14

2 And it came to pass on a certain day that he went into a little ship with his disciples, and he said to them: Let us go over to the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.

Luke 8:7

5 But that on the good ground, are they who in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit in patience.