Jeremiah 44:7

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And now thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against your own souls, that there should die of you man and woman, child and suckling, out of the midst of Juda, and no remnant should be left you:

Cross References

Habakkuk 2:10

Thou hast devised confusion to thy house, thou hast cut off many people, and thy soul hath sinned.

Jeremiah 51:22

And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with thee I will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with thee I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin:

Numbers 16:38

In the deaths of the sinners. And let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified: that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Lamentations 2:11

Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city.

Jeremiah 44:14

And there shall be none that shall escape and remain of the remnant of the Jews that are gone to sojourn in the land of Egypt, and that shall return into the land of Juda, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there. There shall none return but they that shall flee.

Jeremiah 9:21

For death is come up through our windows: it is entered into our houses, to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.

Jeremiah 7:19

Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? Is it not themselves, to the confusion of their countenance?

Proverbs 15:32

He that rejecteth instruction, despiseth his own soul: but he that yieldeth to reproof possesseth understanding.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath. Spare him not, nor covet any thing that is his; but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Judges 21:11

And this is what you shall observe: Every male, and all women that have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save.

Joshua 6:21

And killed all that were in it, man and woman, young and old. The oxen also and the sheep, and the asses, they slew with the edge of the sword.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within: both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.

Jeremiah 44:8

In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, by sacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you are come to dwell there: and that you should perish and be a curse and a reproach to all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 42:20

For you have deceived your own souls: for you sent me to the Lord our God, saying: Pray for us to the Lord our God, and according to all that the Lord our God shall say to thee, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Ezechias king of Juda and all Juda condemn him to death? Did they not fear the Lord and beseech the face of the Lord? And the Lord repented of the evil that they had spoken against them. Therefore we are doing a great evil against our souls.

Jeremiah 25:7

And you have not heard me, saith the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.

Proverbs 8:36

But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.

Proverbs 1:18

And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.

1 Samuel 22:19

And Nobe the city of the priests he smote with the edge of his sword, both men and women, children, and sucklings, and ox and ass, and sheep with the edge of the sword.

Jeremiah 3:24

Confusion hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Lamentations 2:22

Thau. Thou hast called as to a festival those that should terrify me round about, and there was none in the day of the wrath of the Lord that escaped and was left: those that I brought up and nourished, my enemy hath consumed them.

Jeremiah 25:6

And go not after strange gods to serve them and adore them, nor provoke me to wrath by the works of your hands: and I will not afflict you.

Jeremiah 38:17

And Jeremias said to Sedecias: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt take a resolution and go out to the princes of the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live and this city shall not be burnt with fire: and thou shalt be safe and thy house.

Ezekiel 9:6

Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and women: but upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not. And begin ye at my sanctuary. So they began at the ancient men who were before the house.