Jeremiah 6:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ As a fountain wells up and casts forth its waters and keeps them fresh, so she is [continually] casting forth [fresh] wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are continually before Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

Common English Bible

⁷ As a well brings forth fresh water, she brings forth evil. Violence and destruction are heard within her; injury and wounds are ever before me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Just as a cistern makes its water cold, so has she made her wickedness cold. Iniquity and devastation will be heard in her; sickness and wounds will be ever before me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold. Violence and spoil shall be heard in her: infirmity and stripes are continually before me.

Jeremiah 6:7 Cross References

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot to the head, there is no soundness in it, only bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they have not been drained or bound up or softened with oil.

Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the tossing sea that cannot keep still; its waters toss up mire and mud.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs cannot serve as clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

Jeremiah 20:8

For whenever I speak, I must cry out; I must shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.

Jeremiah 30:12

For thus says the Lord: Your hurt is incurable; your wound is grievous.

Jeremiah 30:13

There is no one to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you.

Jeremiah 30:15

Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are so numerous, I have done these things to you.

Jeremiah 32:31

This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built until this day, so that I will remove it from my sight

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Ezekiel 21:29

Offering false visions for you, divining lies for you, they place you over the necks of the vile, wicked ones— those whose day has come, the time of final punishment.

Ezekiel 24:7

For the blood she shed is inside it; she placed it on a bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground, to cover it with earth.

Ezekiel 45:9

“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 7:11

Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, not their abundance, not their wealth; no preeminence among them.

Ezekiel 7:23

Make a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes; the city is full of violence.

Zephaniah 3:1

Woe, soiled, defiled, oppressing city!