Jeremiah 12:3

New Living Translation

But as for me, Lord, you know my heart. You see me and test my thoughts. Drag these people away like sheep to be butchered! Set them aside to be slaughtered!

Cross References

2 Kings 20:3

“Remember, O Lord, how I have always been faithful to you and have served you single-mindedly, always doing what pleases you.” Then he broke down and wept bitterly.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you examine our hearts and rejoice when you find integrity there. You know I have done all this with good motives, and I have watched your people offer their gifts willingly and joyously.

Job 23:10

“But he knows where I am going. And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.

Psalm 11:5

The Lord examines both the righteous and the wicked. He hates those who love violence.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Psalm 17:3

You have tested my thoughts and examined my heart in the night. You have scrutinized me and found nothing wrong. I am determined not to sin in what I say.

Psalm 26:1

Declare me innocent, O Lord, for I have acted with integrity; I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.

Psalm 7:9

End the evil of those who are wicked, and defend the righteous. For you look deep within the mind and heart, O righteous God.

Jeremiah 15:15

Then I said, “Lord, you know what’s happening to me. Please step in and help me. Punish my persecutors! Please give me time; don’t let me die young. It’s for your sake that I am suffering.

Jeremiah 17:16

Lord, I have not abandoned my job as a shepherd for your people. I have not urged you to send disaster. You have heard everything I’ve said.

Jeremiah 17:18

Bring shame and dismay on all who persecute me, but don’t let me experience shame and dismay. Bring a day of terror on them. Yes, bring double destruction upon them!

Jeremiah 20:12

O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, you test those who are righteous, and you examine the deepest thoughts and secrets. Let me see your vengeance against them, for I have committed my cause to you.

Jeremiah 48:15

But now Moab and his towns will be destroyed. His most promising youth are doomed to slaughter,” says the King, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Jeremiah 50:27

Destroy even her young bulls— it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For Babylon’s day of reckoning has come.

Jeremiah 51:4

They will fall dead in the land of the Babylonians, slashed to death in her streets.

John 21:17

A third time he asked him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt that Jesus asked the question a third time. He said, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Then feed my sheep.

James 5:5

You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every desire. You have fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter.

2 Peter 2:12

These false teachers are like unthinking animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They scoff at things they do not understand, and like animals, they will be destroyed.