Jeremiah 14:12

New American Bible - revised edition

If they fast, I will not listen to their supplication. If they sacrifice burnt offerings or grain offerings, I will take no pleasure in them. Rather, I will destroy them with the sword, famine, and plague.

Cross References

Job 27:9

Will God then listen to his cry when distress comes upon him,

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me, but will not find me,

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, the more so when they offer it with bad intent.

Proverbs 28:9

Those who turn their ears from hearing instruction, even their prayer is an abomination.

Isaiah 58:3

“Why do we fast, but you do not see it? afflict ourselves, but you take no note?” See, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, thus says the Lord: See, I am bringing upon them a disaster they cannot escape. Though they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 11:14

Now, you must not intercede for this people; do not raise on their behalf a cry or prayer! I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their disaster.

Jeremiah 15:1

The Lord said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me, my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them away from me and let them go.

Jeremiah 16:4

Of deadly disease they shall die. Unlamented and unburied they will lie like dung on the ground. Sword and famine will make an end of them, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 21:6

I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, human being and beast; they shall die in a great pestilence.

Jeremiah 24:10

I will send upon them sword, famine, and pestilence, until they have disappeared from the land which I gave them and their ancestors.

Jeremiah 32:24

See, the siegeworks have arrived at this city to capture it; the city is handed over to the Chaldeans who are attacking it, with sword, starvation, and disease. What you threatened has happened—you can see it for yourself.

Jeremiah 6:20

Of what use to me is incense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from far-off lands? Your burnt offerings find no favor with me, your sacrifices do not please me.

Jeremiah 8:13

I will gather them all in—oracle of the Lord: no grapes on the vine, No figs on the fig trees, foliage withered! Whatever I have given them is gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Inquire, and call the wailing women to come; summon the most skilled of them.

Ezekiel 14:19

Or if I send plague into this land, pouring out upon it my bloody wrath, cutting off from it human being and beast alike,

Ezekiel 14:21

Thus says the Lord God: Even though I send against Jerusalem my four evil punishments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—to cut off from it human being and beast alike,

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I in turn will act furiously: my eye will not spare, nor will I take pity. Even if they cry out in a loud voice for me to hear, I shall not listen to them.

Hosea 5:6

With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the Lord, but will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

Amos 5:21

I hate, I despise your feasts, I take no pleasure in your solemnities.

Micah 3:4

When they cry to the Lord, he will not answer them; He will hide his face from them at that time, because of the evil they have done.

Zechariah 7:13

Just as when I called out and they did not listen, so they will call out and I will not listen, says the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 1:10

Oh, that one of you would just shut the temple gates to keep you from kindling fire on my altar in vain! I take no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts; and I will not accept any offering from your hands!

Malachi 2:13

This also you do: the altar of the Lord you cover with tears, weeping, and groaning, Because the Lord no longer takes note of your offering or accepts it favorably from your hand.

Revelation 6:8

I looked, and there was a pale green horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades accompanied him. They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth.