Jeremiah 14:12

Good News Translation

Even if they fast, I will not listen to their cry for help; and even if they offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not be pleased with them. Instead, I will kill them in war and by starvation and disease.”

Cross References

Job 27:9

When trouble comes, will God hear their cries?

Proverbs 1:28

Then you will call for wisdom, but I will not answer. You may look for me everywhere, but you will not find me.

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord is pleased when good people pray, but hates the sacrifices that the wicked bring him.

Proverbs 21:27

The Lord hates it when wicked people offer him sacrifices, especially if they do it from evil motives.

Proverbs 28:9

If you do not obey the law, God will find your prayers too hateful to hear.

Isaiah 58:3

The people ask, “Why should we fast if the Lord never notices? Why should we go without food if he pays no attention?” The Lord says to them, “The truth is that at the same time you fast, you pursue your own interests and oppress your workers.

Jeremiah 11:11

So now I, the Lord, warn them that I am going to bring destruction on them, and they will not escape. And when they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

Jeremiah, don't pray to me or plead with me on behalf of these people. When they are in trouble and call to me for help, I will not listen to them.”

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel were standing here pleading with me, I would not show these people any mercy. Make them go away; make them get out of my sight.

Jeremiah 16:4

They will die of terrible diseases, and no one will mourn for them or bury them. Their bodies will lie like piles of manure on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation, and their bodies will be food for the birds and the wild animals.

Jeremiah 21:6

I will kill everyone living in this city; people and animals alike will die of a terrible disease.

Jeremiah 24:10

I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them until there is not one of them left in the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.”

Jeremiah 32:24

“The Babylonians have built siege mounds around the city to capture it, and they are attacking. War, starvation, and disease will make the city fall into their hands. You can see that all you have said has come true.

Jeremiah 6:20

What do I care about the incense they bring me from Sheba, or the spices from a distant land? I will not accept their offerings or be pleased with their sacrifices.

Jeremiah 8:13

“I wanted to gather my people, as a farmer gathers a harvest; but they are like a vine with no grapes, like a fig tree with no figs; even the leaves have withered. Therefore, I have allowed outsiders to take over the land.”

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have heard about, and I will send armies against them until I have completely destroyed them.”

Ezekiel 14:19

“If I send an epidemic on that country and in my anger take many lives, killing people and animals,

Ezekiel 14:21

This is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: “I will send my four worst punishments on Jerusalem—war, famine, wild animals, and disease—to destroy people and animals alike.

Ezekiel 8:18

They will feel all the force of my anger. I will not spare them or show them any mercy. They will shout prayers to me as loud as they can, but I will not listen to them.”

Hosea 5:6

They take their sheep and cattle to offer as sacrifices to the Lord, but it does them no good. They cannot find him, for he has left them.

Amos 5:21

The Lord says, “I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them!

Micah 3:4

The time is coming when you will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer you. He will not listen to your prayers, for you have done evil.

Zechariah 7:13

Because they did not listen when I spoke, I did not answer when they prayed.

Malachi 1:10

The Lord Almighty says, “I wish one of you would close the Temple doors so as to prevent you from lighting useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you; I will not accept the offerings you bring me.

Malachi 2:13

This is another thing you do. You drown the Lord's altar with tears, weeping and wailing because he no longer accepts the offerings you bring him.

Revelation 6:8

I looked, and there was a pale-colored horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades followed close behind. They were given authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill by means of war, famine, disease, and wild animals.