Jeremiah 39:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² “Take him, look after him well, and do him no harm, but deal with him as he may ask you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Take him and look after him well; do him no harm but deal with him as he may ask of you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

Common English Bible

¹² “Find Jeremiah and look after him; don’t harm him but do whatever he asks from you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² "Take him, and set your eyes on him, and you shall do no harm to him at all. But as he is willing, so shall you do with him."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Take him and set thy eyes upon him and do him no harm: but as he hath a mind, so do with him.

Jeremiah 39:12 Cross References

Proverbs 16:7

When the ways of people please the Lord, he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.

Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.

Proverbs 23:5

When your eyes light upon it, it is gone, for suddenly it takes wings to itself, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Jeremiah 15:11

The Lord said: Surely I have intervened in your life for good; surely I have brought enemies upon you in a time of trouble and in a time of distress.

Jeremiah 15:21

I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.

Jeremiah 24:6

I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not pluck them up.

Jeremiah 39:13

So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon sent

Jeremiah 40:4

Now look, I have just released you today from the fetters on your hands. If you wish to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will take good care of you, but if you do not wish to come with me to Babylon, you need not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.

Amos 9:4

And though they go into captivity in front of their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes on them for harm and not for good.

Acts 7:10

and rescued him from all his afflictions and enabled him to win favor and to show wisdom when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.