Jeremiah 44:7

The Passion Translation

“And now I, Yahweh, God of Israel, Commander God of Angel Armies, ask you: Why do you insist on heading for another disaster, one that will destroy every man, woman, and child in Judah? Why should you leave yourselves without a remnant?

Cross References

Proverbs 1:18

They’ll resort to murder to steal their victim’s assets, but eventually it will be their own lives that are ambushed.

Proverbs 15:32

Refusing constructive criticism shows you have no interest in improving your life, for revelation-insight only comes as you accept correction and the wisdom that it brings.

Proverbs 5:22

Beware that your sins don’t overtake you and that the scars of your own conscience don’t become the ropes that tie you up.

Proverbs 8:36

But those who stumble and miss me will be sorry they did! For ignoring what I have to say will bring harm to your own soul. Those who hate me are simply flirting with death!”

Jeremiah 25:6

Do not run after other gods to serve and worship them.’ “ ‘Do not provoke me to anger by worshiping idols your own hands have made, and I will do you no harm,’

Jeremiah 25:7

declares Yahweh. ‘But you have not listened to me and have provoked my anger by worshiping idols your own hands have made, to your own harm.’ ”

Jeremiah 26:19

“Did King Hezekiah and the people of Judah sentence Micah to death for prophesying this? Did not the king rather fear Yahweh, humble himself, and plead earnestly with him so that he relented of the disaster that he had decreed against them? Do we really want to bring a disaster upon ourselves with such a crime?”

Jeremiah 3:24

Ever since we were young, Baal, the god of shame, has robbed us of the abundance our ancestors labored for— their flocks and herds, their precious sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 38:17

“Well then,” I said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, Commander of Angel Armies says, ‘If you go out and surrender to Nebuchadnezzar’s generals, your life will be spared, and Jerusalem will not be burned down. You and your family will survive.

Jeremiah 42:20

that you are in danger of your very lives. You deceived me when you sent me to Yahweh your God and said, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; whatever he says, we will do it.’

Jeremiah 44:14

None of the remnant of Judah who have settled in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the country of Judah. Even though they want to go and live there again, only a few will escape and return.”

Jeremiah 44:8

Why do you keep provoking my wrath by offering incense to Egyptian gods where you have settled? Are you bent on your own destruction? Don’t you realize you will become a curse and a laughingstock for all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 51:22

With you I shattered men and women, with you I conquered old and young, and with you I triumphed over young men and girls.

Jeremiah 7:19

Yet, I am not the one they are hurting, says Yahweh; they are hurting themselves to their own shame.

Jeremiah 9:21

For Death has crept in through our windows, forcing its way past our fortified defenses, cutting down the child playing outside and the young men in the streets.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes have no tears left, and my stomach is tied in knots. My heart is spilled out into the dirt over the destruction of the daughter of my people. Little toddlers and children collapse in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:22

“You invited terror as if to a festival, to attack me from all sides. On the day of Yahweh’s anger, none escaped and none survived. All whom I cherished and reared have been annihilated by the enemy.”

Ezekiel 33:11

“Say to them, ‘As surely as I, Lord Yahweh, exist—I take no delight in the death of the wicked, but I delight in seeing them turn from their ways so they can live. So, repent and turn from your evil ways. People of Israel, why would you want to die? Turn and come back to me!’

Joshua 6:21

They utterly destroyed all that was in Jericho, men and women, young and old, livestock and donkeys—everything was destroyed with the sword.

Judges 21:11

This is what you are to do: exterminate every man and every woman who is not a virgin.”