Jeremiah 49:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ Rise up; advance against a nation at ease, that lives secure, says the Lord, that has no gates or bars, that lives alone.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Arise [Nebuchadrezzar], get up into a nation which is at ease, which dwells without care, says the Lord, [a nation] which has neither gates nor bars, which dwells apart and alone.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Arise, get you up unto a nation that is at ease, that dwelleth without care, saith Jehovah; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone.

Common English Bible

³¹ Get ready to attack a nation that feels safe and secure, declares the LORD, one without barred gates that lives by itself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Rise up, and ascend to a nation that is quiet and lives in confidence, says the Lord. They have neither gates nor bars. They dwell alone.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ Arise and go up to a nation that is at ease and that dwelleth securely, saith the Lord: they have neither gates nor bars: they dwell alone.

Jeremiah 49:31 Cross References

Psalm 123:4

Our soul has had more than its fill of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud.

Psalm 73:12

Such are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women who are at ease; shudder, you complacent ones; strip and make yourselves bare, and put sackcloth on your loins.

Isaiah 32:9

Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, listen to my speech.

Isaiah 42:11

Let the desert and its towns lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the inhabitants of Sela shout for joy; let them shout from the tops of the mountains.

Isaiah 47:8

Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”—

Jeremiah 48:11

Moab has been at ease from his youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; therefore his flavor has remained, and his aroma is unspoiled.

Ezekiel 30:9

On that day, messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the secure Cushites, and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom, for it is coming!

Ezekiel 38:11

You will say, “I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will fall upon the quiet people who live in safety, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates,

Ezekiel 39:6

I will send fire on Magog and on those who live securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Micah 7:14

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that belongs to you, which lives alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.

Nahum 1:12

Thus says the Lord: Though they are at full strength and many, they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the exultant city that lived secure, that said to itself, “I am, and there is no one else”? What a desolation it has become, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by it hisses and shakes the fist.

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the crags I see him; from the hills I behold him. Here is a people living alone and not reckoning itself among the nations!

Deuteronomy 33:28

So Israel lives in safety, untroubled is Jacob’s abode in a land of grain and wine, where the heavens drop down dew.