Jeremiah 4:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁰ Then I said, “Ah, Lord God, surely thou hast utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It shall be well with you’; whereas the sword has reached their very life.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Then I [Jeremiah] said, Alas, Lord God! Surely You have greatly deceived and misled this people and Jerusalem, [for the prophets represented You as] saying [to Your people], You shall have peace, whereas the sword has reached to [their very] life.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the life.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Then I said, “LORD God, no! You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem by promising them peace even though the sword is at their throats.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ And I said: "Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God! Could it be that you have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: 'Peace shall be yours,' while, behold, the sword reaches even to the soul?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace? And, Behold, the sword reacheth even to the soul.

Jeremiah 4:10 Cross References

Exodus 5:22

Then Moses turned again to the Lord and said, “O Lord, why hast thou done evil to this people? Why didst thou ever send me?

Exodus 9:14

For this time I will send all my plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants and your people, that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “See not”; and to the prophets, “Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

Isaiah 37:35

For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”

Isaiah 63:17

O Lord, why dost thou make us err from thy ways and harden our heart, so that we fear thee not? Return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy heritage.

Jeremiah 1:6

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.”

Jeremiah 23:17

They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to every one who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”

Jeremiah 32:17

‘Ah Lord God! It is thou who hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thy outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for thee,

Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.”

Jeremiah 5:12

They have spoken falsely of the Lord, and have said, ‘He will do nothing; no evil will come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine.

Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

Jeremiah 8:11

They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

Lamentations 2:21

In the dust of the streets lie the young and the old; my maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword; in the day of thy anger thou hast slain them, slaughtering without mercy.

Ezekiel 11:13

And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord God! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”

Romans 1:24

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Romans 1:26

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.