Jeremiah 22:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ He judged and defended the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not [all] this [what it means] to know and recognize Me? says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ He defended the rights of the poor and needy; then it went well. Isn’t that what it means to know me? declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ He judged the case of the poor and the indigent for their good. Was this not because he knew me, says the Lord?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good. Was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord?

Jeremiah 22:16 Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

Psalm 109:31

For he shall stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul.

Psalm 36:10

O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; And thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

Psalm 9:10

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

Proverbs 31:9

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister judgement to the poor and needy.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do well; seek judgement, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Jeremiah 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness: they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they should prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge,

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Jeremiah 9:24

but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth, and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgement, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue as it were their bow for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

Micah 6:8

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

John 16:3

And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

John 17:3

And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.

John 17:6

I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.

John 8:19

They said therefore unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father: if ye knew me, ye would know my Father also.

Titus 1:16

They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

1 Samuel 2:2

There is none holy as the LORD; for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.