Jeremiah 6:7

New American Bible - revised edition

As a well keeps its waters fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; ever before me are wounds and blows.

Cross References

Proverbs 4:23

With all vigilance guard your heart, for in it are the sources of life.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot to the head there is no sound spot in it; Just bruise and welt and oozing wound, not drained, or bandaged, or eased with salve.

Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the tossing sea which cannot be still, Its waters cast up mire and mud.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs cannot serve as clothing, nor can they cover themselves with their works. Their works are evil works, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

Jeremiah 20:8

Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage I proclaim; The word of the Lord has brought me reproach and derision all day long.

Jeremiah 30:12

For thus says the Lord: Incurable is your wound, grievous your injury;

Jeremiah 30:13

There is none to plead your case, no remedy for your running sore, no healing for you.

Jeremiah 30:15

Why cry out over your wound? There is no relief for your pain. Because of your great guilt, your numerous sins, I have done this to you.

Jeremiah 32:31

This city has so stirred my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, that I must put it out of my sight,

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead, no healer there? Why does new flesh not grow over the wound of the daughter of my people?

Ezekiel 21:29

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because your guilt has been exposed, your crimes laid bare, your sinfulness revealed in all your deeds—because you have been exposed, you shall be taken in hand.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is still in her midst; on a bare rock she left it; She did not pour it on the ground to be covered with dirt.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right! Stop evicting my people!—oracle of the Lord God. Weights and Measures.

Ezekiel 7:11

the violent have risen up to wield a scepter of wickedness. But none of them shall remain; none of their crowd, none of their wealth, for none of them are innocent.

Ezekiel 7:23

They will wreak slaughter, for the land is filled with bloodshed and the city with violence.

Zephaniah 3:1

Ah! Rebellious and polluted, the tyrannical city!