Jeremiah 22:23

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Those who live in the palace panelled with cedar will groan with pain like women giving birth.

Cross References

Jeremiah 21:13

Jerusalem, from your mountaintop you look out over the valleys and think you are safe. But I, the LORD, am angry,

Jeremiah 22:6

Listen to what I think about it: the palace of Judah's king is as glorious as Gilead or Lebanon's highest peaks. But it will be as empty as a ghost town when I'm through with it.

Jeremiah 3:21

Listen to the noise on the hilltops! It's the people of Israel, weeping and begging me to answer their prayers. They forgot about me and chose the wrong path.

Jeremiah 48:28

Now you must leave your towns and live like doves in the shelter of cliffs and canyons.

Jeremiah 49:16

Pride tricks you into thinking that other nations look at you with fear. You live along the cliffs and high in the mountains like the eagles, but I am the LORD, and I will bring you down.

Jeremiah 6:24

Then the people said, “Just hearing about them makes us tremble with fear, and we twist and turn in pain like a woman giving birth.”

Ezekiel 17:3

so they will understand what I am saying to them: A large eagle with strong wings and beautiful feathers once flew to Lebanon. It broke the top branch off a cedar tree,

Hosea 5:15

Then I'll return to my temple until they confess their guilt and worship me, until they are desperate and beg for my help.

Hosea 7:14

They don't really pray to me; they just howl in their beds. They have rejected me for Baal and slashed themselves, in the hope that Baal will bless their crops.

Amos 9:2

“If they dig deep into the earth or climb to the sky, I'll reach out and get them.

Obadiah 1:4

I will still bring you down, even if you fly higher than an eagle or nest among the stars. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Habakkuk 2:9

You're doomed! You made your family rich at the expense of others. You even said to yourself, “I'm above the law.”

Numbers 24:21

“And this is what I saw about the Kenites: They think they're safe, living among the rocks,