Jeremiah 12:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ But you, O Lord, know me; you see me and test me; my heart is with you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ But You, O Lord, know and understand me and my devotion to You; You see me and try my heart toward You. [O Lord] pull [these rebellious ones] out like sheep for the slaughter and devote and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Common English Bible

³ Yet you, LORD, you know me. You see me. You can tell that I love you. So drag them away and butcher them like sheep. Prepare them for the slaughterhouse.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And you, O Lord, have known me well. You have seen me, and you have tested my heart with you. Gather them together like a flock for the sacrifice and sanctify them for the day of slaughter.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou hast seen me and proved my heart with thee: gather them together as sheep for a sacrifice, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 12:3 Cross References

2 Kings 20:3

“Remember now, O Lord, I implore you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart and have done what is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you search the heart and take pleasure in uprightness; in the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people who are present here offering freely and joyously to you.

Job 23:10

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come out like gold.

Psalm 11:5

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates the lover of violence.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.

Psalm 17:3

If you try my heart, if you visit me by night, if you test me, you will find no wickedness in me; my mouth does not transgress.

Psalm 26:1

Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.

Psalm 7:9

O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God.

Jeremiah 15:15

O Lord, you know; remember me and visit me, and bring down retribution for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance do not take me away; know that on your account I suffer insult.

Jeremiah 17:16

But I have not run away from being a shepherd in your service, nor have I desired the fatal day. You know what came from my lips; it was before your face.

Jeremiah 17:18

Let my persecutors be shamed, but do not let me be shamed; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction!

Jeremiah 20:12

O Lord of hosts, you test the righteous; you see the heart and the mind; let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have committed my cause.

Jeremiah 48:15

Moab is destroyed, and his towns have gone up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 50:27

Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Alas for them, their day has come, the time of their punishment!

Jeremiah 51:4

They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans and wounded in her streets.

John 21:17

He said to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

James 5:5

You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

2 Peter 2:12

These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,