Jeremiah 14:12

Contemporary English Version 1995

They may even go without eating and offer sacrifices to please me and to give thanks. But when they cry out for my help, I won't listen, and I won't accept their sacrifices. Instead, I'll send war, starvation, and disease to wipe them out.”

Cross References

Ezekiel 8:18

So in my fierce anger, I will punish them without mercy and refuse to help them when they cry out to me.”

Jeremiah 11:11

Here is what I've decided to do. I will bring suffering on the people of Judah and Jerusalem, and no one will escape. They will beg me to help, but I won't listen to their prayers.

Jeremiah 6:20

People of Judah, you bring me incense from Sheba and spices from distant lands. You offer sacrifices of all kinds. But why bother? I hate these gifts of yours!

Proverbs 1:28

You will ask for my help, but I won't listen; you will search, but you won't find me.

Zechariah 7:13

and said, “You people paid no attention when I called out to you, and now I'll pay no attention when you call out to me.”

Micah 3:4

Someday you will beg the Lord to help you, but he will turn away because of your sins.

Ezekiel 14:21

I am the Lord God, and I promise to punish Jerusalem severely. I will send war, starvation, wild animals, and deadly disease to slaughter its people and livestock.

Jeremiah 24:10

War and hunger and disease will strike them, until they finally disappear from the land that I gave them and their ancestors.

Jeremiah 16:4

They will die of horrible diseases and of war and starvation. No one will give them a funeral or bury them, and their bodies will be food for the birds and wild animals. And what's left will lie on the ground like manure.

Jeremiah 9:16

I'll scatter them in foreign countries that they and their ancestors have never even heard of. Finally, I will send enemy soldiers to kill every last one of them.

Isaiah 58:3

You wonder why the Lord pays no attention when you go without eating and act humble. But on those same days that you give up eating, you think only of yourselves and abuse your workers.

Proverbs 28:9

God cannot stand the prayers of anyone who disobeys his Law.

Proverbs 21:27

The Lord despises the offerings of wicked people with evil motives.

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord is disgusted by gifts from the wicked, but it makes him happy when his people pray.

Revelation 6:8

Then I saw a pale green horse. Its rider was named Death, and Death's Kingdom followed close behind. They were given power over one fourth of the earth, and they could kill its people with swords, famines, diseases, and wild animals.

Job 27:9

without listening when they beg for mercy.

Jeremiah 8:13

I will wipe them out. They are vines without grapes; fig trees without figs or leaves. They have not done a thing that I told them! I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 32:24

Jerusalem is under attack, and we suffer from hunger and disease. The Babylonians have already built dirt ramps up to the walls of our city, and you can see that Jerusalem will be captured just as you said.

Ezekiel 14:19

And suppose I am so angry that I send a deadly disease to wipe out the people and livestock of a sinful nation.

Hosea 5:6

You offer sheep and cattle as sacrifices to me, but I have turned away and refuse to be found.

Amos 5:21

I, the Lord, hate and despise your religious celebrations and your times of worship.

Malachi 1:10

I wish someone would lock the doors of my temple, so you would stop wasting time building fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you priests, and I refuse to accept any more of your offerings.

Malachi 2:13

And what else are you doing? You cry noisily and flood the Lord's altar with your tears, because he isn't pleased with your offerings and refuses to accept them.

Jeremiah 11:14

Jeremiah, don't pray for these people or beg me to rescue them. If you do, I won't listen, and I certainly won't listen if they pray!

Jeremiah 15:1

The Lord said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel were here, praying with you, I wouldn't change my mind. So send the people of Judah away.