Jeremiah 8:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ “And death shall be preferred to life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil people, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” declares יהוה  of hosts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family (nation), who remain in all the places to which I have driven them, says the Lord of hosts.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Common English Bible

³ The survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, wherever I have scattered them, declares the LORD of heavenly forces.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And they will greatly prefer death to life: all those who will have been left from this wicked kindred, in all the forsaken places to which I will cast them out, says the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 8:3 Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Jeremiah 23:3

“Therefore I shall gather the remnant of My flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and shall bring them back to their fold. And they shall bear and increase.

Jeremiah 23:8

but, ‘As יהוה  lives who brought up and led the seed of the house of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 29:14

‘And I shall be found by you,’ declares יהוה, ‘and I shall turn back your captivity, and shall gather you from all the gentiles and from all the places where I have driven you, declares יהוה. And I shall bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you.’

Jeremiah 29:28

“For he has sent to us in Baḇ

Jeremiah 40:12

then all the Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 44:2

“Thus said יהוה  of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 44:6

‘So My wrath and My displeasure were poured out and burned in the cities of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 6:9

Thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Let them thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Yisra’ĕ

Daniel 9:7

“O יהוה, to You is the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as it is this day – to the men of Yehuḏ

Leviticus 26:33

‘And I shall scatter you among the gentiles and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins,

Amos 3:1

Hear this word that יהוה  has spoken against you, O children of Yisra’ĕ

Jonah 4:3

“And now, O יהוה, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”

Micah 2:3

Therefore thus said יהוה, “See, against this clan I am planning evil, from which you do not remove your necks, nor walk proudly, for this is a time of evil.

Deuteronomy 30:1

“And it shall be, when all these words come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you shall bring them back to your heart among all the gentiles where יהוה  your Elohim drives you,

Deuteronomy 30:4

“If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under the heavens, from there יהוה  your Elohim does gather you, and from there He does take you.

Revelation 6:16

and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him sitting on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Revelation 9:6

And in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall long to die, but death shall flee from them.