Jeremiah 6:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ “As a well flows with water, so she flows with her evil. Violence and destruction are heard in her. Before Me continually are suffering and smiting.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ As a fountain wells up and casts forth its waters and keeps them fresh, so she is [continually] casting forth [fresh] wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are continually before Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

Common English Bible

⁷ As a well brings forth fresh water, she brings forth evil. Violence and destruction are heard within her; injury and wounds are ever before me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Just as a cistern makes its water cold, so has she made her wickedness cold. Iniquity and devastation will be heard in her; sickness and wounds will be ever before me.

Jeremiah 6:7 Cross References

Proverbs 4:23

Watch over your heart with all diligence, For out of it are the sources of life.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot, to the head, there is no soundness in it – wounds and bruises and open sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment.

Isaiah 57:20

But the wrong are like the troubled sea, for it is unable to rest, and its waters cast up mud and dirt.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs do not become garments, nor do they cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of wickedness, and a deed of violence is in their hands.

Jeremiah 20:8

For when I speak, I cry out, proclaiming violence and ruin. Because the word of יהוה  was made to me a reproach and a derision daily.

Jeremiah 30:12

“For thus said יהוה, ‘Your breach is incurable, your wound is grievous.

Jeremiah 30:13

‘No one pleads your cause, to bind up. There are no healing medicines for you.

Jeremiah 30:15

‘Why do you cry about your breach? Your pain is incurable. Because of your many crookednesses, because your sins have increased, I have done this to you.

Jeremiah 32:31

“For this city has been a cause for My displeasure and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day that I should remove it from before My face,

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilʽ

Ezekiel 21:29

while they see false visions for you, while they divine a lie to you – to put you on the necks of the profaned ones, the wrong ones whose day has come, in the time of the crookedness of the end.

Ezekiel 24:7

“For her blood is in her midst. She has set it on a shining rock. She did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

Ezekiel 45:9

‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Enough, you princes of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 7:11

‘The violence has grown into a rod of wrongdoing. There is none of them, and none of its crowd, and none of their riches, and none eminent among them.

Ezekiel 7:23

‘Make a chain, for the land has been filled with crimes of blood, and the city has been filled with violence.

Zephaniah 3:1

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!