Jeremiah 16:19 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁹ Adonai, my strength, my stronghold, my refuge in the day of affliction, to You will the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, futility and useless things.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ [Then said Jeremiah] O Lord, my Strength and my Stronghold, and my Refuge in the day of affliction, to You shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, emptiness, and futility, worthless things in which there is no profit!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ LORD, you are my strength and my stronghold; you are my refuge in time of trouble. The nations will flock to you from the ends of the earth, and they will say: “Our ancestors have inherited utter lies, things that are hollow and useless.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ "O Lord, my strength, and my health, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: the Gentiles will approach you from the ends of the earth, and they will say: 'Truly, our fathers possessed a lie, an emptiness that has not benefited them.'

Jeremiah 16:19 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 20:23

Meanwhile, the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their God is a God of the mountains—that’s why they were stronger than us. But let’s fight against them in the plain. Then surely we’ll be stronger than them.

Psalm 18:3

Adonai is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in Him I take refuge, my shield, my horn of salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 19:14

Also keep Your servant from willful sins. May they not have dominion over me. Then I will be blameless, free from great transgression.

Psalm 27:5

For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His sukkah, conceal me in the shelter of His tent, and set me high upon a rock.

Psalm 46:1

For the music director, of the sons of Korah, according to Alamoth, a song.

Psalm 46:11

“Be still, and know that I am God. I am exalted among the nations. I am exalted in the earth.”

Psalm 46:7

Nations are in uproar, kingdoms totter, He utters His voice, the earth melts!

Psalm 62:2

My soul, wait in stillness, only for God— from Him comes my salvation.

Psalm 62:7

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my strong tower—I will not be moved.

Psalm 65:3

O You who hear prayer, to You all flesh will come.

Psalm 68:31

Rebuke the beast of the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves, peoples trampling down pieces of silver. He has scattered the peoples who delight in war!

Psalm 86:9

All nations You have made will come and bow down before You, my Lord, and they will glorify Your Name.

Proverbs 18:10

The Name of Adonai is a strong tower. The righteous one runs into it and is set safely up high.

Isaiah 25:4

For You have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against the wall.

Isaiah 32:2

Each will be like a refuge from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a massive rock in a weary land.

Isaiah 44:10

Who fashions a god or casts an idol for no profit?

Isaiah 44:20

He is feeding on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, so he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t what is in my right hand a fraud?”

Isaiah 45:14

Thus says Adonai: “Egypt’s toil, Ethiopia’s merchandise, and the tall Sabeans will come over to you and be yours. They will walk behind you in chains. They will bow down to you, and pray, saying, ‘Surely God is with you!’ There is none else— no other God!”

Isaiah 49:6

So He says, “It is too trifling a thing that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved ones of Israel. So I will give You as a light for the nations, that You should be My salvation to the end of the earth.”

Isaiah 62:2

Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Adonai’s mouth will bestow.

Jeremiah 10:3

The customs of the peoples are useless: it is just a tree cut from the forest, the work of the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

Jeremiah 10:5

Like a scarecrow in a cucumber garden, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk! Do not fear them for they can do no harm —nor do any good.”

Jeremiah 12:16

“So it will come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of My people—to swear by My Name, ‘As Adonai lives,’ just as they taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be built up in the midst of My people.

Jeremiah 14:8

O hope of Israel, Savior in time of trouble, why are You like a stranger in the land, or like a traveler who stays for a night?

Jeremiah 17:17

Be not a ruin to me— You are my refuge in the evil day.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed its gods— even though they are not gods? Yet My people have exchanged their glory for worthless things.

Jeremiah 2:8

The kohanim did not ask, ‘Where is Adonai?’ The Torah experts did not know Me. The shepherds rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and went after unprofitable things.

Jeremiah 3:23

Surely help from the hills is a delusion— the commotion of the mountains! Surely in Adonai Eloheinu is the salvation of Israel.

Jeremiah 33:9

“Then this city will be to Me for a name of joy, praise and glory before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do for them, so they will fear and tremble because of all the good and for all the shalom that I do for it.”

Jeremiah 4:2

You will swear, ‘As Adonai lives!’ in truth, in justice and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in Him and in Him they will glory.”

Ezekiel 11:16

Therefore say, thus says Adonai Elohim, “Though I removed them far away, among the nations, though I scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I was a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.”

Amos 2:4

Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Judah even for four, I will not relent. For they despise Adonai’s Torah and have not kept His statutes. Their lies have misled them— those their fathers walked after.

Nahum 1:7

Adonai is good as a refuge in the day of distress, and He knows those who take refuge in Him.

Habakkuk 3:19

Adonai my Lord, is my strength. He has made my feet like a deer’s, and will make me walk on my high places. For the choir director: On my stringed instruments.

Zechariah 2:11

“Oy , Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.”

Malachi 1:11

“For from sunrise to its setting My Name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to My Name with a pure grain offering, for My Name will be great among the nations,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Romans 1:25

They traded the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were redeemed from the futile way of life handed down from your ancestors—not with perishable things such as silver or gold,

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel trumpeted, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, “The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Anointed One. And He shall reign forever and ever!”