Jeremiah 42:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ then the sword  you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine you are worried about will follow on your heels  there to Egypt, and you will die there.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt, and there ye shall die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then the sword which you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow close after you to Egypt and in it, and there you shall die.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ then the war you fear will seize you in the land of Egypt; and the famine you dread will hunt you down in Egypt, and there you will die.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ the sword which you dread will overtake you there, in the land of Egypt, and the famine, about which you are anxious, will cling to you in Egypt, and there you shall die.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ The sword which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt: and the famine whereof you are afraid shall cleave to you in Egypt: and there you shall die.

Jeremiah 42:16 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 13:21

Disaster pursues sinners, but good rewards the righteous.

Jeremiah 27:8

‘ “ ‘As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and does not place its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish by sword, famine, and plague #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #until through him I have destroyed it.

Jeremiah 41:18

away from the Chaldeans. For they feared them because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

Jeremiah 42:13

‘But if you say, “We will not stay in this land,”  in order to disobey the Lord your God,

Jeremiah 44:27

I am watching over them for disaster and not for good,  and everyone from Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine until they are finished off.

Ezekiel 11:8

You fear the sword,  so I will bring the sword against you.  This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Zechariah 1:6

But didn’t my words and my statutes that I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? ” ’ So the people repented and said, ‘As the Lord of Armies decided to deal with us for our ways and our deeds, so he has dealt with us.’

John 11:48

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans  will come and take away both our place and our nation.’

Deuteronomy 28:15

‘But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake  you:

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,  blight, and mildew;  these will pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:45

‘All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes he gave you.