Jeremiah 9:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 1 And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens of dragons: and I will make the cities of Juda desolate, for want of an inhabitant.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And they bend their tongue, [which is] their bow for the lies [they shoot]. And not according to faithfulness do they rule and become strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me, says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And they bend their tongue, as it were their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

³ They bend their tongues like bows to spew out lies; they are renowned in the land, but not for truth. They go from bad to worse. They don’t know me! declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And they have bent their tongue, like a bow, to send forth lies and not the truth. They have been strengthened upon the earth. And they have gone from one evil to another. But they have not known me, says the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth: for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:3 Cross References

Genesis 39:16

7 And said: The Hebrew servant, whom thou best brought, came to me to abuse me.

Proverbs 12:5

2 The desire of the wicked is the fortification of evil men: but the root of the just shall prosper.

Isaiah 1:3

1 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

Isaiah 3:5

3 The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge the people.

Isaiah 6:5

3 And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.

Isaiah 9:18

Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.

Jeremiah 12:6

4 Thus saith the Lord against all my wicked neighbors, that touch the inheritance that I have shared out to my people Israel: Behold I will pluck them out of their land, and I will pluck the house of Juda out of the midst of them.

Jeremiah 22:16

4 As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence.

Jeremiah 31:34

At that time the army of the king o Babylon besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremias the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the house of the king of Juda.

Jeremiah 4:22

0 But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.

Jeremiah 5:4

2 They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine.

Jeremiah 5:5

3 The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.

Jeremiah 6:28

If you opress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods to your own hurt,

Jeremiah 7:26

4 And I will cause ot cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the coice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

Jeremiah 9:5

3 And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it.

Jeremiah 9:8

6 And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they be consumed.

Ezekiel 8:13

And the glory of the Lord of Israel went up from the cherub, upon which he was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man that was clothed with linen, and had a writer's inkhorn at his loins.

Daniel 11:27

5 And some of the learned shall fall, that they may be tried, and may be chosen, and made white even to the appointed time, because yet there shall be another time.

Leviticus 19:11

6 Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.

Mark 8:38

And immediately looking about, they saw no man any more, but Jesus only with them.

John 17:3

1 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are.

Acts 24:9

7 Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings, and vows.

Romans 1:16

4 Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

Romans 1:28

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

Romans 3:13

1 But now without the law the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

1 Corinthians 15:34

3 It is sown in dishonour, it shall rise in glory. It is sown in weakness, it shall rise in power.

Philippians 1:28

But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.

2 Timothy 3:13

But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober.

Jude 1:3

2 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,

Revelation 12:11

And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his death's wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the beast.

Judges 14:17

I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her.

Judges 2:10

5 But whithersoever they meant to go, the hand of the Lord was upon them, as he had said, and as he had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.

1 Samuel 2:12

7 Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord.