Jeremiah 49:4

Modern English Version

Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter who trusts in her treasures, saying, “Who shall come against me?”

Cross References

Psalm 49:6

those who trust in their wealth and boast in the abundance of their riches?

Psalm 52:7

“Behold, the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and sought refuge in his wickedness.”

Psalm 62:10

Trust not in oppression; put no vain hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Proverbs 10:15

The wealth of the rich man is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their destruction.

Jeremiah 21:13

Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rocky plain, says the Lord, you men who say, “Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter our dwellings?”

Jeremiah 3:14

Return, O backsliding sons, says the Lord, for I am married to you. And I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you go about, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth: A woman shall obtain a man.

Jeremiah 48:7

For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you will also be captured; and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity together with his priests and his officials.

Jeremiah 49:16

As for the terror of you, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;

Hosea 4:16

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn. Now will the Lord feed them like a lamb in a wide pasture?

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this world that they not be conceited, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who richly gives us all things to enjoy.

Revelation 18:7

To the extent that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her torment and sorrow; for in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and will see no sorrow.’