Jeremiah 14:16

God's Word

The people they prophesy to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem. They will be victims of famines and wars. No one will bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour on them the destruction that they deserve.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:31

They will eat the fruit of their lifestyle. They will be stuffed with their own schemes.

Isaiah 51:20

Your children have fainted. They lie sleeping at every street corner. They are like an antelope caught in a net. They experience the anger of the Lord, the fury of your God.

Isaiah 9:16

Those who guide these people lead them astray. Those who are guided by them will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 16:4

They will die horrible deaths. No one will mourn for them or bury them. They will be like manure on the ground. Wars and famines will bring them to an end. Their bodies will be food for birds and animals.

Jeremiah 18:21

Now, hand their children over to famine. Pour out their ⌞blood⌟ by using your sword. Then their wives will become childless widows. Their husbands will be put to death. Their young men will be struck down in battle.

Jeremiah 20:6

And you, Pashhur, and all those who live in your house will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and you will die there. You will be buried there together with all your friends to whom you prophesied these lies.”

Jeremiah 27:15

I didn’t send them, declares the Lord. They prophesy lies in my name. So I will scatter you, and you and the prophets will die.”

Jeremiah 4:18

“You brought this on yourself. This is your punishment. It is bitter. It breaks your heart.”

Jeremiah 5:31

Prophets prophesy lies. Priests rule under the prophets’ directions, and my people love this. But what will you do in the end?”

Jeremiah 7:33

The dead bodies of these people will become food for birds and animals, and no one will be there to frighten them away.

Jeremiah 8:1

The Lord declares, “At that time the bones of the kings and the leaders of Judah, the bones of the priests and the prophets, and the bones of the others who lived in Jerusalem will be taken out of their graves.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon, and all the stars in the sky. These are the things that they had loved, served, gone after, sought, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered or buried, but they will become manure on the ground.

Jeremiah 9:20

Listen to the Lord’s word, you women, and open your ears to hear his words. Teach your daughters how to cry. Teach your neighbors funeral songs.

Jeremiah 9:22

This is what the Lord says: Dead bodies will fall like manure on the field. They will be like grain that has been cut but not gathered.

Ezekiel 39:14

“ ‘People will be chosen to go through the land and make it clean. With the help of others they will bury the dead soldiers that are still on the ground. At the end of seven months they will begin their search.

Amos 7:17

“However, this is what the Lord says: Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will be killed with swords. Your land will be surveyed and divided up, and you will die in an unclean  land. Israel cannot avoid being taken from its land into exile.”

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone! They are blind leaders. When one blind person leads another, both will fall into the same pit.”

Revelation 16:1

I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Pour the seven bowls of God’s anger over the earth.”