Jeremiah 35:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ and not to build houses to dwell 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

There is great gain in godliness with contentment;

Jeremiah 35:7

you shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’

Psalm 37:16

Better is a little that the righteous 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 the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?

Numbers 16:14

Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.”