Jeremiah 49:31

New Century Version

“Get up! Attack the nation that is comfortable, that is sure no one will defeat it,” says the Lord. “It does not have gates or fences to protect it. Its people live alone.

Cross References

Psalm 123:4

We have suffered many insults from lazy people and much cruelty from the proud.

Psalm 73:12

These people are wicked, always at ease, and getting richer.

Isaiah 32:11

Women, you are calm now, but you should shake with fear. Women, you feel safe now, but you should tremble. Take off your nice clothes and put rough cloth around your waist to show your sadness.

Isaiah 32:9

You women who are calm now, stand up and listen to me. You women who feel safe now, hear what I say.

Isaiah 42:11

The deserts and their cities should praise him. The settlements of Kedar should praise him. The people living in Sela should sing for joy; they should shout from the mountaintops.

Isaiah 47:8

“Now, listen, you lover of pleasure. You think you are safe. You tell yourself, ‘I am the only important person. I will never be a widow or lose my children.’

Jeremiah 48:11

“The people of Moab have never known trouble. They are like wine left to settle; they have never been poured from one jar to another. They have not been taken into captivity. So they taste as they did before, and their smell has not changed.

Ezekiel 30:9

“ ‘At that time I will send messengers in ships to frighten Cush, which now feels safe. The people of Cush will tremble with fear when Egypt is punished. And that time is sure to come.

Ezekiel 38:11

You will say, “I will march against a land of towns without walls. I will attack those who are at rest and live in safety. All of them live without city walls or gate bars or gates.

Ezekiel 39:6

I will send fire on Magog and those who live in safety on the coastlands. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Micah 7:14

So shepherd your people with your stick; tend the flock of people who belong to you. That flock now lives alone in the forest in the middle of a garden land. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.

Nahum 1:12

This is what the Lord says: “Although Assyria is strong and has many people, it will be defeated and brought to an end. Although I have made you suffer, Judah, I will make you suffer no more.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the happy and safe city that thinks there is no one else as strong as it is. But what a ruin it will be, a place where wild animals live. All those who pass by will make fun and shake their fists.

Numbers 23:9

I see them from the top of the mountains; I see them from the hills. I see a people who live alone, who think they are different from other nations.

Deuteronomy 33:28

The people of Israel will lie down in safety. Jacob’s spring is theirs alone. Theirs is a land full of grain and new wine, where the skies drop their dew.