Jeremiah 44:7

Modern English Version

Now thus says the Lord God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you committing this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving you no one to remain,

Cross References

Proverbs 1:18

but they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

Proverbs 15:32

He who refuses instruction despises his own soul, but he who heeds reproof gains understanding.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the cords of his sin.

Proverbs 8:36

but he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 25:6

And do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and provoke Me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no harm.”

Jeremiah 25:7

Yet you have not listened to Me, says the Lord, that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own harm.

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the Lord, and the Lord relented of the disaster which He had pronounced against them? Thus we might procure great evil against ourselves.”

Jeremiah 3:24

For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Jeremiah 38:17

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: If you will surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then your soul will live and this city will not be burned with fire. Thus you and your household will live.

Jeremiah 42:20

For you have only deceived yourselves when you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God. And according to all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it.’

Jeremiah 44:14

So none of the remnant of Judah who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there will escape or remain, with the result that they return into the land of Judah to which they have a desire to return to dwell there. For no one shall return except those who escape.

Jeremiah 44:8

provoking Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to dwell, so that you might cut yourselves off and become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 51:22

With you also I will break in pieces man and woman; and with you I will break in pieces old and young; and with you I will break in pieces the young man and the young woman.

Jeremiah 7:19

Do they provoke Me to anger? says the Lord. Do they not provoke themselves to the shame of their own faces?

Jeremiah 9:21

“For death has come up into our windows; and has entered our palaces, to cut off the children from the streets, and the young men from the squares.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail with tears, my spirit is greatly troubled; my bile is poured on the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:22

You have invited as to a feast day the terrors all around; in the day of the Lord’s anger no one escaped or survived; those whom I held and raised my enemy destroyed.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 9:6

Utterly slay old and young, both maidens and little children, and women. But do not touch any man on whom is the mark. And begin at My sanctuary.” Then they began with the elders who were before the temple.

Habakkuk 2:10

You have given shameful counsel to your house by cutting off many peoples, and forfeiting your life.

Numbers 16:38

As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their own lives, make them into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord and they are holy. They shall be a sign to the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 32:25

The sword outside and terror within will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant along with the man of gray hair.

Joshua 6:21

They destroyed all that was in the city: man and woman, young and old, and oxen, sheep, and donkey with the edge of the sword.

Judges 21:11

This is what you will do: You will kill every man and every woman who has slept with a man.”

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not have compassion on them but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

1 Samuel 22:19

And Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword. Both men and women, children and babies, oxen, donkeys, and sheep, he struck with the edge of the sword.