Jeremiah 48:44

Contemporary English Version 1995

If you are terrified and run, you will fall into a pit; and if you crawl out of the pit, you'll get caught in a trap. The time has come for you to be punished. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Cross References

Jeremiah 11:23

And when I am finished, no one from their families will be left alive.

1 Kings 19:17

Hazael will start killing the people who worship Baal. Jehu will kill those who escape from Hazael, and Elisha will kill those who escape from Jehu.

Amos 5:19

You will run from a lion, only to meet a bear. You will escape to your house, rest your hand on the wall, and be bitten by a snake.

Jeremiah 46:21

The foreign soldiers you hired will turn and run. But they are doomed, like well-fed calves being led to the butcher. *

Micah 7:4

The most honest of them is worse than a thorn patch. Your doom has come! Lookouts sound the warning, and everyone panics.

Hosea 9:7

Israel, the time has come. You will get what you deserve, and you will know it. “Prophets are fools,” you say. “And God's messengers are crazy.” Your terrible guilt has filled you with hatred.

Jeremiah 51:18

Idols are merely a joke, and when the time is right, they will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 23:12

Now I will punish you with disaster, and you will slip and fall in the darkness. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 16:16

But for now, I am sending enemies who will catch you like fish and hunt you down like wild animals in the hills and the caves.

Jeremiah 10:15

Idols are merely a joke, and when the time is right, they will be destroyed.

Isaiah 24:18

If you are terrified and run, you will fall into a pit; if you crawl out of the pit, you will get caught in a trap. The sky has split apart like a window thrown open. The foundations of the earth have been shaken;

Isaiah 10:3

But what will you do when you are fiercely attacked and punished by foreigners? Where will you run for help? Where will you hide your valuables?

1 Kings 20:30

The rest of the Syrian army ran back to Aphek, but the town wall fell and crushed 27,000 of them. Benhadad also escaped to Aphek and hid in the back room of a house.

Jeremiah 8:12

They should be ashamed of the way they live, but they don't even blush. And so, when I punish Judah, they will end up on the ground, dead like everyone else.

Jeremiah 50:24

Babylonia challenged me, the Lord God All-Powerful, but that nation doesn't know it is caught in a trap that I set.

Jeremiah 50:27

Kill the soldiers of Babylonia, because the time has come for them to be punished.

Lamentations 3:47

We are terrified and trapped, caught and crushed.”

Isaiah 24:17

Terror, traps, and pits are waiting for everyone.

Jeremiah 49:8

I will send disaster to punish you descendants of Esau, so anyone from Dedan had better turn around and run back home.