Jeremiah 3:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our ancestors had labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ [We have been ruined as a nation by our faithlessness and idolatry] for the shameful thing has consumed all for which our fathers toiled from our youth–their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Common English Bible

²⁴ From our youth, shame has devoured the fruit of our parents’ labor— their flocks and herds, as well as their sons and daughters.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Confusion has devoured the labor of our fathers, from our youth, with their flocks and their herds, with their sons and their daughters.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ Confusion hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Jeremiah 3:24 Cross References

Jeremiah 11:13

For your gods have become as many as your towns, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars to shame you have set up, altars to make offerings to Baal.

Jeremiah 22:21

I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, “I will not listen.” This has been your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice.

Jeremiah 44:7

And now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves, to cut off man and woman, child and infant, from the midst of Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

Jeremiah 8:16

The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who live in it.

Jeremiah 9:18

let them quickly raise a dirge over us, so that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.

Ezekiel 16:19

Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with choice flour and oil and honey—you set it before them as a pleasing odor, and so it was, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 16:20

You took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. As if your prostitutions were not enough!

Ezekiel 16:61

Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.

Ezekiel 16:63

in order that you may remember and be confounded and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord God.

Hosea 10:6

The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.

Hosea 2:8

She did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil and who lavished upon her silver and gold that they used for Baal.

Hosea 9:10

Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its first season, I saw your ancestors. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame and became detestable like the thing they loved.