Jeremiah 23:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² “Therefore their way is to them like slippery ways in the dark. They are driven on and they shall fall in them. For I bring evil on them, the year of their punishment,” declares יהוה.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Therefore their way will be to them like slippery paths in the dark; they will be driven on and fall into them. For I will bring evil upon them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹² Therefore, they will find themselves on slippery ground and will be thrust into darkness, where they will collapse. I will bring disaster upon them, when their time comes, declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² For this reason, their way will be like a slippery path in the dark. For they will be impelled forward, and they will fall in it. For I will bring evils over them, in the year of their visitation, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:12 Cross References

Job 18:18

They thrust him from light into darkness, and chase him out of the world.

Psalm 35:6

Let their way be dark and slippery, With a messenger of יהוה  pursuing them.

Psalm 73:18

Indeed, You set them in slippery places; You make them fall to ruins.

Psalm 82:5

They do not know, nor do they understand, They walk about in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Exodus 32:34

“And now, go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. See, My Messenger goes before you. And in the day of My visitation I shall visit their sin upon them.”

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wrong is like darkness; They do not know at what they stumble.

Isaiah 8:22

And they shall look to the earth and see distress and darkness, gloom of hard times, and be driven into thick darkness.

Jeremiah 11:23

‘And there shall be no remnant of them, for I bring evil on the men of Anathoth – the year of their punishment.’ ”

Jeremiah 13:16

Give esteem to יהוה  your Elohim before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light. He turns it into the shadow of death, makes it gross darkness.

Jeremiah 48:44

“He who flees from the fear falls into the pit, and he who gets out of the pit is caught in the snare. For I am bringing upon 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 8:12

“Were they ashamed when they had done abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. They shall stumble in the time of their visitation,” said יהוה.

Lamentations 2:20

“See, O יהוה, and look attentively To whom have You done thus. Should the women eat their offspring, Infants of a hand breadth? Should the priest and prophet be slain In the set-apart place of יהוה ?

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a prickly plant, the most straight is sharper than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchman and your punishment has come, now is their confusion.

John 12:35

יהושע, therefore, said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. And he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

Deuteronomy 32:35

‘Vengeance is Mine, and repayment, At the time their foot slips; For near is the day of their calamity, And the matters prepared are hastening to them.’

1 John 2:11

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame, straying stars for whom blackness of darkness is kept forever.