Jeremiah 44:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why inflict so great an evil upon yourselves, cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, not leaving yourselves even a remnant?

Cross References

Proverbs 1:18

They lie in wait for their own blood, they set a trap for their own lives.

Proverbs 15:32

Those who disregard discipline hate themselves, but those who heed reproof acquire understanding.

Proverbs 5:22

By their own iniquities the wicked will be caught, in the meshes of their own sin they will be held fast;

Proverbs 8:36

But those who pass me by do violence to themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Jeremiah 25:6

Do not follow other gods to serve and bow down to them; do not provoke me with the works of your hands, or I will bring evil upon you.

Jeremiah 25:7

But you would not listen to me—oracle of the Lord—and so you provoked me with the works of your hands to your own harm.

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah condemn him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, so that the Lord had a change of heart regarding the evil he had spoken against them? We, however, are about to do great evil against ourselves.” The Fate of Uriah.

Jeremiah 3:24

The shameful thing has devoured our ancestors’ worth from our youth, Their sheep and cattle, their sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 38:17

Jeremiah then said to Zedekiah: “Thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will only surrender to the princes of Babylon’s king, you shall save your life; this city shall not be destroyed by fire, and you and your household shall live.

Jeremiah 42:20

At the cost of your lives you have been deceitful, for you yourselves sent me to the Lord, your God, saying, “Pray for us to the Lord, our God; whatever the Lord, our God, shall say, tell us and we will do it.”

Jeremiah 44:14

so that none of the remnant of Judah who came to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive. No one shall return to the land of Judah. Even though they long to return and live there, they shall not return except as refugees.

Jeremiah 44:8

Why do you provoke me with the works of your hands, offering sacrifice to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you have come to live? Will you cut yourselves off and become a curse, a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 51:22

With you I shatter man and woman, with you I shatter old and young, with you I shatter the young man and young woman.

Jeremiah 7:19

Are they really offending me—oracle of the Lord—or rather themselves, to their own disgrace?

Jeremiah 9:21

Corpses shall fall like dung in the open field, Like sheaves behind the harvester, with no one to gather them.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with tears, my stomach churns; My bile is poured out on the ground at the brokenness of the daughter of my people, As children and infants collapse in the streets of the town.

Lamentations 2:22

You summoned as to a feast day terrors on every side; On the day of the Lord’s wrath, none survived or escaped. Those I have borne and nurtured, my enemy has utterly destroyed.”

Ezekiel 33:11

Answer them: As I live—oracle of the Lord God—I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! Why should you die, house of Israel?

Ezekiel 9:6

Old and young, male and female, women and children—wipe them out! But do not touch anyone marked with the X. Begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

Habakkuk 2:10

You have devised shame for your household, cutting off many peoples, forfeiting your own life;

Deuteronomy 32:25

Out in the street the sword shall bereave, and at home the terror For the young man and the young woman alike, the nursing babe as well as the gray beard.

Joshua 6:21

They observed the ban by putting to the sword all living creatures in the city: men and women, young and old, as well as oxen, sheep and donkeys.

Judges 21:11

This is what you are to do: Every male and every woman who has had relations with a male you shall put under the ban.”

1 Samuel 15:3

Go, now, attack Amalek, and put under the ban everything he has. Do not spare him; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.”

1 Samuel 22:19

Saul also put the priestly city of Nob to the sword, including men and women, children and infants, and oxen, donkeys and sheep. Abiathar Escapes.