Jeremiah 9:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Speak! Thus says the Lord: “Human corpses shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves behind the reaper, and no one shall gather them.”

Cross References

2 Kings 20:13

Hezekiah welcomed them; he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses; there was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.

2 Kings 20:15

He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”

2 Kings 9:37

the corpse of Jezebel shall be like dung on the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, ‘This is Jezebel.’ ”

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Psalm 49:7

Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life; there is no price one can give to God for it.

Psalm 83:10

who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.

Proverbs 18:11

The wealth of the rich is their strong city; in their imagination it is like a high wall.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist.

Isaiah 5:25

Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall become like dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall become food for the birds of the air and for the wild animals of the earth.

Jeremiah 25:33

Those slain by the Lord on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented or gathered or buried; they shall become dung on the surface of the ground.

Jeremiah 6:21

Therefore thus says the Lord: See, I am laying before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; parents and children together, neighbor and friend shall perish.

Jeremiah 7:33

The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the animals of the earth, and no one will frighten them away.

Jeremiah 8:2

and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have followed, and which they have inquired of and worshiped, and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be like dung on the surface of the ground.

Habakkuk 1:11

Then they sweep by like the wind; they transgress and become guilty; their own might is their god!

Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring such distress upon people that they shall walk like the blind; because they have sinned against the Lord, their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

Deuteronomy 8:17

Do not say to yourself, ‘My power and the might of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.’