Jeremiah 9:22

Good News Translation

Dead bodies are scattered everywhere, like piles of manure on the fields, like grain cut and left behind by the reapers, grain that no one gathers. This is what the Lord has told me to say.”

Cross References

2 Kings 20:13

Hezekiah welcomed the messengers and showed them his wealth—his silver and gold, his spices and perfumes, and all his military equipment. There was nothing in his storerooms or anywhere in his kingdom that he did not show them.

2 Kings 20:15

“What did they see in the palace?” “They saw everything. There is nothing in the storerooms that I didn't show them.”

2 Kings 9:37

Her remains will be scattered there like dung, so that no one will be able to identify them.’”

Psalm 49:7

We can never redeem ourselves; we cannot pay God the price for our lives,

Psalm 83:10

You defeated them at Endor, and their bodies rotted on the ground.

Proverbs 18:11

Rich people, however, imagine that their wealth protects them like high, strong walls around a city.

Proverbs 23:4

Be wise enough not to wear yourself out trying to get rich.

Isaiah 5:25

The Lord is angry with his people and has stretched out his hand to punish them. The mountains will shake, and the bodies of those who die will be left in the streets like rubbish. Yet even then the Lord's anger will not be ended, but his hand will still be stretched out to punish.

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 25:33

On that day the bodies of those whom the Lord has killed will lie scattered from one end of the earth to the other. No one will mourn for them, and they will not be taken away and buried. They will lie on the ground like piles of manure.

Jeremiah 6:21

And so I will make these people stumble and fall. Parents and children will die, and so will friends and neighbors.”

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals, and there will be no one to scare them off.

Jeremiah 8:2

Instead of being gathered and buried, their bones will be like manure lying on the ground. They will be spread out before the sun, the moon, and the stars, which these people have loved and served, and which they have consulted and worshiped.

Habakkuk 1:11

Then they sweep on like the wind and are gone, these men whose power is their god.”

Zephaniah 1:17

The Lord says, “I will bring such disasters on the human race that everyone will grope about like someone blind. They have sinned against me, and now their blood will be poured out like water, and their dead bodies will lie rotting on the ground.”

Deuteronomy 8:17

So then, you must never think that you have made yourselves wealthy by your own power and strength.