Jeremiah 44:28

New English Translation

Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true, mine or theirs.’

Cross References

Psalm 33:11

The Lord’s decisions stand forever; his plans abide throughout the ages.

Isaiah 10:19

There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them.

Isaiah 10:22

For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back. Destruction has been decreed; just punishment is about to engulf you.

Jeremiah 42:17

All the people who are determined to go and settle in Egypt will die from war, starvation, or disease. No one will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’

Jeremiah 44:13

I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt with war, starvation, and disease just as I punished Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 44:14

None of the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah. Though they long to return and live there, none of them shall return except a few fugitives.’”

Jeremiah 44:29

Moreover the Lord says, ‘I will make something happen to prove that I will punish you in this place. I will do it so that you will know that my threats to bring disaster on you will prove true.

Jeremiah 51:50

You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the Lord in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 6:8

“‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.

Zechariah 1:6

But have my words and statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, not outlived your fathers? Then they paid attention and confessed, ‘The Lord who rules over all has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways.’”

Numbers 14:41

But Moses said, “Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the Lord? It will not succeed!

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.