Jeremiah 12:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ But You have known me, O יהוה. You see me, and You have tried my heart toward You. Draw them away like sheep for slaughter, and separate them for the day of slaughter.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ But You, O Lord, know and understand me and my devotion to You; You see me and try my heart toward You. [O Lord] pull [these rebellious ones] out like sheep for the slaughter and devote and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Common English Bible

³ Yet you, LORD, you know me. You see me. You can tell that I love you. So drag them away and butcher them like sheep. Prepare them for the slaughterhouse.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And you, O Lord, have known me well. You have seen me, and you have tested my heart with you. Gather them together like a flock for the sacrifice and sanctify them for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 12:3 Cross References

2 Kings 20:3

“I pray to You, O יהוה, remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what was good in Your eyes.” And Ḥ

1 Chronicles 29:17

“And I know, my Elohim, that You are trying the heart and desire uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have voluntarily given all these. And now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to give voluntarily to You.

Job 23:10

For He knows the way that I take. When He has tried me, I would come forth as gold.

Psalm 11:5

יהוה  tries the righteous, But His being shall hate the wrong And the one who loves violence.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O Ě

Psalm 17:3

You have examined my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me – You find I have not schemed; My mouth would not transgress.

Psalm 26:1

Rule me rightly, O יהוה, For I have walked in my integrity. And I have trusted in יהוה, without wavering.

Psalm 7:9

Please let the evil of the wrong be ended, And establish the righteous; For the righteous Elohim is a trier of hearts and kidneys.

Jeremiah 15:15

You Yourself know, O יהוה. Remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on these who persecute me. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that for You I have suffered reproach.

Jeremiah 17:16

And I have not run away from being a shepherd who follows You, nor have I longed for the desperately sick day. You Yourself have known, that which came out of my lips was before You.

Jeremiah 17:18

Let these who persecute me be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be broken, but do not let me be broken. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction!

Jeremiah 20:12

But, O יהוה  of hosts, trying the righteous, and seeing the kidneys and heart, let me see Your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to You.

Jeremiah 48:15

“Mo’aḇ

Jeremiah 50:27

Slay all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 51:4

“And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the pierced-through in her streets.

John 21:17

He said to him the third time, “Shimʽ

James 5:5

You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury, you have fattened your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, like natural unreasoning beasts, having been born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheme that which they do not know, shall be destroyed in their destruction,