Jeremiah 49:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Why do you boast in your strength? Your strength is ebbing, O faithless daughter. Who trusted in her treasures, saying, “Who will attack me?”

Cross References

Psalm 49:6

those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?

Psalm 52:7

“See the one who would not take refuge in God but trusted in abundant riches and sought refuge in wealth!”

Psalm 62:10

Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Proverbs 10:15

The wealth of the rich is their fortress; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

Jeremiah 21:13

See, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, says the Lord; you who say, “Who can come down against us, or who can enter our places of refuge?”

Jeremiah 3:14

Return, O faithless children, says the Lord, for I am your husband; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encompasses a man.

Jeremiah 48:7

Surely, because you trusted in your strongholds and your treasures, you also shall be taken; Chemosh shall go out into exile, with his priests and his attendants.

Jeremiah 49:16

The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Although you make your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:24

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels and looked backward rather than forward.

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus says the Lord: Do not let the wise boast in their wisdom; do not let the mighty boast in their might; do not let the wealthy boast in their wealth;

Hosea 4:16

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

1 Timothy 6:17

As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches but rather on God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

Revelation 18:7

As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her a like measure of torment and grief. Since in her heart she says, ‘I rule as a queen; I am no widow, and I will never see grief,’