Jeremiah 22:17 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁷ “But your eyes and your heart are only upon your own greedy gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and on doing violence.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness and dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression and doing violence.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ But you set your eyes and heart on nothing but unjust gain; you spill the blood of the innocent; you practice cruelty; you oppress your subjects.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Yet truly, your eyes and your heart are toward avarice and the shedding of innocent blood, and toward false accusations and the pursuit of evil deeds.

Jeremiah 22:17 Cross References

1 Kings 21:19

“And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Have you murdered and also taken possession?” ’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naḇ

2 Kings 23:37

And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה, according to all that his fathers did.

2 Kings 24:4

and also because of the innocent blood that he shed. For he filled Yerushalayim with innocent blood, which יהוה  would not forgive.

2 Chronicles 36:8

And the rest of the acts of Yehoyaqim, the abominations which he did, and what was found against him, see, they are written in the book of the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕ

Job 31:7

If my step does turn from the way, or my heart has gone after my eyes, or if any spot has clung to my hands,

Psalm 10:3

For the wrongdoer boasted of his cravings; And the greedy one cursed and despised יהוה.

Exodus 18:21

“But you yourself, seek out from all the people able men, who fear Elohim, men of truth, hating unfair gain. And place these over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Proverbs 24:2

For their heart plots to ravage, And their lips talk of trouble.

Isaiah 56:11

And the dogs have a strong appetite, they never have enough. And they are shepherds! They have not known understanding. All of them look to their own way, every one for his own gain, from his own end, saying,

Jeremiah 17:11

“As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets riches, but not by right. It leaves him in the midst of his days, and at his end he is a fool.”

Jeremiah 19:4

“Because they have forsaken Me and have profaned this place, and have burned incense in it to other mighty ones whom neither they, their fathers, nor the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 22:3

‘Thus said יהוה, “Do right-ruling and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do not maltreat nor do violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 6:13

“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, they are all greedy for gain. And from the prophet even to the priest, all act falsely.

Jeremiah 6:6

For thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Cut down her trees, and cast up a siege mound against Yerushalayim. She is the city to be punished, in whose midst there is only oppression.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other mighty ones to your own evil,

Jeremiah 8:10

“Therefore I give their wives to others, and their fields to possessing ones. For from the least even to the greatest, they are all greedy for gain. From the prophet to the priest, all act falsely.

Ezekiel 18:12

if he has oppressed the poor and needy, has committed robbery, he does not return a pledge, has lifted his eyes to the idols, or did abomination,

Ezekiel 19:6

‘And he went about among the lions, and became a young lion. And he learned to tear the prey, he devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:7

‘And he knew their widows, and laid waste their cities. And the land and all who filled it was stunned by the noise of his roaring.

Ezekiel 19:9

‘And they put him in a cage in chains, and brought him to the sovereign of Baḇ

Ezekiel 22:6

“See the leaders of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 33:31

“And they come to you as people do, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love – their hearts pursue their greedy gain.

Micah 2:2

And they coveted fields and seized them, also houses, and took them away. And they oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Micah 3:10

those building up Tsiyon with bloodshed and Yerushalayim with unrighteousness.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers in her midst are roaring lions, her judges are evening wolves, they shall leave no bone until morning.

Romans 1:29

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoring, wickedness, greed, evil; filled with envy, murder, fighting, deceit, evil habits; whisperers,

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves, nor greedy of gain, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers shall inherit the reign of Elohim.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: whoring, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed of gain, which is idolatry.

Joshua 7:21

“When I saw among the spoil a lovely garment from Shinʽ

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes filled with an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable beings, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

2 Peter 2:3

and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his ways, and turned aside after own gain, and took bribes, and twisted right-ruling.