Jeremiah 6:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 4 We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord: Stand by the roads and look; and ask for the eternal paths, where the good, old way is; then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it! [Matt. 11:29.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ The LORD proclaims: Stop at the crossroads and look around; ask for the ancient paths. Where is the good way? Then walk in it and find a resting place for yourselves. But you said, “We won’t go!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Thus says the Lord: "Stand above the ways, and see and ask, about the ancient paths, as to which is the good way, and then walk in it. And you will find refreshment for your souls. But they said: 'We will not walk.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.

Jeremiah 6:16 Cross References

1 Kings 8:36

1 Moreover also the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name's sake, (for they shall hear every where of thy great name and thy mighty hand,

2 Chronicles 19:11

And Josaphat stood in the midst of the assembly of Juda, and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord before the new court,

Psalm 116:7

4 I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people:

Isaiah 2:5

3 And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan.

Isaiah 28:12

0 For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering can- not cover both.

Isaiah 30:21

9 You shall have a song as in the night of the sanctified solemnity, and joy of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe, to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Mighty One of Israel.

Isaiah 46:9

Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 57:2

0 Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy ways: yet thou saidst not: I will rest: thou hast found life of thy hand, therefore thou hast not asked.

Isaiah 8:20

For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.

Jeremiah 12:16

And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out of the place where I had hid it: and behold the girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for no use.

Jeremiah 18:12

0 Shall evil be rendered for good, because they have digged a pit for my soul? Remember that I have stood in thy sight, so speak good for them, and turn away thy indignation from them.

Jeremiah 18:15

3 But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: forgive not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.

Jeremiah 2:25

3 Why dost thou endeavor to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who has also taught thy malices to be thy ways,

Jeremiah 22:21

9 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:21

9 In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

Jeremiah 42:3

1 Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you are greatly afraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

Jeremiah 44:16

4 And Jeremias said to all the people, and to all the women : Hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt:

Jeremiah 50:5

3 Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but shall be wholly desolate: every one that shall pass by Babylon, shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

Jeremiah 7:23

1 And they have built the high places of Topeth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons, and their daughters in the fire: which I commanded not, nor thought on in my heart.

Jeremiah 7:24

2 Therefore behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and it shall no more be called Topeth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom: but the valley of slaughter, and they shall bury in Topeth, because there is no place.

Jeremiah 7:3

1 Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.

Malachi 4:4

And Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, of her that had been the wife of Urias.

Luke 16:29

And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this mulberry tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you.

John 12:35

3 For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

John 13:17

5 He therefore, leaning on the breast of Jesus, saith to him: Lord, who is it?

John 5:39

7 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?

Acts 17:11

9 And taking him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying: May we know what this new doctrine is, which thou speakest of?

Romans 4:12

0 In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust; but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God:

Deuteronomy 32:7

2 The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.

Colossians 2:6

5 And despoiling the principalities and powers, he hath exposed them confidently in open shew, triumphing over them in himself.

Hebrews 11:2

1 By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age; because she believed that he was faithful who had promised,

Hebrews 6:12

For this Melchisedech was king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him:

Judges 2:17

2 That through them I may try Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.