Jeremiah 38:22 - The Scriptures 1998

²² ‘Then see, all the women who are left in the sovereign of Yehuḏ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² and, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Behold, [in it] all the women who are left in the house of the king of Judah will be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes and will say [to you, King Zedekiah], Your friends have prevailed against your better judgment and have deceived you. Now when your feet are sunk in the mire [of trouble], they have turned their backs.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: now that thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.

Common English Bible

²² All the women left in the palace of the king of Judah will be led out to the officers of the king of Babylon. And they will say: ‘Your trusted friends have betrayed you; they have deceived you; now that your feet are stuck in the mud, they are nowhere to be found.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Behold, all the women who remain in the house of the king of Judah will be led away to the rulers of the king of Babylon. And the women will say: 'Your men of peacefulness have led you astray, and they have prevailed against you. They have immersed your feet in mud and have set them in a slippery place. And they have withdrawn from you.'

Jeremiah 38:22 Cross References

Job 6:15

My brothers are as undependable as a wadi, as a bed on which streams once ran,

Psalm 41:9

Even my own friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me.

Psalm 69:14

Rescue me out of the mire, And let me not sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me, And out of the deep waters.

Psalm 69:2

I have sunk in deep mud, And there is no place to stand; I have come into deep waters, And the floods overflow me.

Isaiah 42:17

“Those who trust in idols, who say to the moulded images, ‘You are our mighty ones,’ shall be turned back, utterly ashamed.

Jeremiah 13:21

What would you say when He visits you? For you have taught them to be chiefs, to be head over you. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in labour?

Jeremiah 20:10

For I heard many mocking, “Fear on every side!” “Expose,” they say, “yea, let us expose him!” All my friends watched for my stumbling, saying, “He might be lured away, so that we prevail against him, and take our revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 27:14

“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘Do not serve the sovereign of Baḇ

Jeremiah 27:15

for I have not sent them,” declares יהוה, “yet they prophesy falsehood in My Name, in order that I drive you out. Then you shall perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

Jeremiah 38:19

Then Tsiḏ

Jeremiah 38:21

“But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that יהוה  has shown me:

Jeremiah 41:10

Then Yishmaʽ

Jeremiah 43:6

the men, and the women, and the children, and the sovereign’s daughters, and every being whom Neḇ

Jeremiah 46:21

“Her hired ones too, in her midst, are like fattened calves, for they too shall turn, they shall flee away together. They shall not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 46:5

“Why do I see them afraid, turned back? And their fighters are beaten down. And they have fled in haste, and did not look back, for fear was all around,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 6:12

“And their houses shall be turned over to others, fields and wives together. For I shall stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares יהוה.

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.

Lamentations 1:13

“From above He has sent fire into my bones, And it overpowered them; He has spread a net for my feet and turned me back; He has laid me waste and faint all the day.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly at night, And her tears are upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no comforter for her. All her friends have betrayed her, They have become her enemies.

Lamentations 5:11

They have humbled the women in Tsiyon, The maidens in the cities of Yehuḏ

Micah 7:5

Trust no friend, rely on no companion, guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.