Jeremiah 35:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ and not to build houses to live in. We have no vineyard or field or seed,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And not to build ourselves houses to live in; nor do we have vineyard or field or seed.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Common English Bible

⁹ And we haven’t built houses to live in or had vineyards, fields, or crops.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And we do not build houses in which to live. And we do not have vineyard, or field, or seed to sow.

Jeremiah 35:9 Cross References

1 Timothy 6:6

Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment,

Jeremiah 35:7

nor shall you ever build a house or sow seed, nor shall you plant a vineyard or even own one, but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you reside.’

Psalm 37:16

Better is a little that the righteous person has than the abundance of many wicked.

2 Kings 5:26

But he said to him, “Did I not go with you in spirit when someone left his chariot to meet you? Is this a time to accept silver and to accept clothing, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves?

Numbers 16:14

It is clear you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come!”