Jeremiah 14:16

New American Bible - revised edition

The people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and the sword. No one shall bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour out upon them their own wickedness.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:31

Well, then, they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and with their own devices be glutted.

Isaiah 51:20

Your children lie helpless at every street corner like antelopes in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 9:16

That is why the Lord does not spare their young men, and their orphans and widows he does not pity; For they are totally impious and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched!

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 18:21

So now, give their children to famine, deliver them to the power of the sword. Let their wives be childless and widows; let their husbands die of pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 20:6

You, Pashhur, and all the members of your household shall go into exile. To Babylon you shall go; there you shall die and be buried, you and all your friends, because you have prophesied lies to them.”

Jeremiah 27:15

I did not send them—oracle of the Lord—but they prophesy falsely in my name. As a result I must banish you, and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your conduct, your deeds, have done this to you; how bitter is this evil of yours, how it reaches to your very heart!

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests teach on their own authority; Yet my people like it this way; what will you do when the end comes?

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and beasts of the earth, which no one will drive away.

Jeremiah 8:1

At that time—oracle of the Lord—the bones of the kings and princes of Judah, the bones of the priests and the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will be brought out of their graves

Jeremiah 8:2

and spread out before the sun, the moon, and the whole host of heaven, which they loved and served, which they followed, consulted, and worshiped. They will not be gathered up for burial, but will lie like dung upon the ground.

Jeremiah 9:20

Death has come up through our windows, has entered our citadels, To cut down children in the street, young people in the squares.

Jeremiah 9:22

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise boast of his wisdom, nor the strong boast of his strength, nor the rich man boast of his riches;

Ezekiel 39:14

Men shall be permanently assigned to pass through the land, burying those who lie unburied in order to cleanse the land. For seven months they shall keep searching.

Amos 7:17

Therefore thus says the Lord: Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword. Your land shall be parcelled out by measuring line, and you yourself shall die in an unclean land; and Israel shall be exiled from its land.”

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides (of the blind). If a blind person leads a blind person, both will fall into a pit.”

Revelation 16:1

I heard a loud voice speaking from the temple to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of God’s fury upon the earth.”