Jeremiah 6:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²³ The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel (ruthless and inhuman) and have no mercy. Their voice sounds like the roaring sea; they ride on horses, every one set in array as a man for battle against you, O Daughter of Zion!

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Zion.

Common English Bible

²³ Equipped with bow and spear, they are cruel; they show no mercy. Their horsemen sound like the roaring sea, arrayed in battle formation against you, Daughter Zion.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ They will take hold of arrow and shield. They are cruel, and they will not take pity. Their voice will roar like the ocean. And they will climb upon horses, for they have been prepared like men for battle, against you, O daughter of Zion.

Jeremiah 6:23 Cross References

Isaiah 10:32

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them.

Isaiah 13:18

Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?

Isaiah 17:12

And they shall be left together to the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be upon them all the summer, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

Isaiah 19:4

2 Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and shew what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

Jeremiah 25:32

Thus saith the Lord: Stand in the court of the house of the Lord, and speak to all the cities of Juda, out of which they come, to adore in the house of the Lord, all the words which I have commanded thee to to speak unto them: leave not out one word.

Jeremiah 25:9

7 And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord, and I presented it to all the nations to drink of it, to which the Lord sent me:

Jeremiah 30:14

2 And you shall be my people: and I will be your God.

Jeremiah 4:13

1 How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long shall I hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 4:16

4 I looked upon the mountains, and behold they trembled: and all the hills were troubled.

Jeremiah 4:29

Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening, hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.

Jeremiah 5:16

4 And they have not said in their heart: let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fullness of the yearly harvest.

Jeremiah 50:41

Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not, him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army.

Jeremiah 50:42

And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.

Jeremiah 6:4

2 And their houses shall be turned over to others, with their lands and their wives together: for I will stretch for my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:16

Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

Ezekiel 21:31

They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

Deuteronomy 28:49

4 The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy his own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom,