Jeremiah 15 (NET)

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Jeremiah 15:1¹Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 14:14 Ezek 14:20-21 Jer 14:11 Jer 11:14 Ps 106:23 Jer 7:15-16 Exod 32:11-14 Ps 99:6 1 Sam 12:23 2 Kgs 17:20

Jeremiah 15:2²If they ask you, ‘Where should we go?’ tell them the Lord says this: “Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease. Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war. Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation. Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 43:11 Zech 11:9 Ezek 5:2 Rev 13:10 Rev 6:3-8 Ezek 5:12 Isa 24:18 Jer 14:12 Amos 5:19 Dan 9:12

Jeremiah 15:3³“I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them; I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies; I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 28:26 Lev 26:16 Lev 26:22 Ezek 14:21 Lev 26:25 Rev 6:8 1 Kgs 21:23-24 Isa 18:6 Jer 7:33 Isa 56:9-10

Jeremiah 15:4⁴I will make all the people in all the kingdoms of the world horrified at what has happened to them because of what Hezekiah’s son Manasseh, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 24:9 2 Kgs 21:11-13 2 Kgs 21:16-17 2 Kgs 23:26-27 2 Kgs 24:3-4 Deut 28:25 Ezek 23:46 Jer 29:18 2 Kgs 21:2 Jer 34:17

Jeremiah 15:5⁵The Lord cried out, “Who in the world will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will grieve over you? Who will stop long enough to inquire about how you are doing?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 51:19 Nah 3:7 Jer 21:7 Ps 69:20 1 Sam 17:22 1 Sam 25:5 Exod 18:7 Jer 13:14 Jer 16:5 Job 19:21

Jeremiah 15:6⁶I, the Lord, say: ‘You people have deserted me; you keep turning your back on me.’ So I have unleashed my power against you and have begun to destroy you. I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:24 Zeph 1:4 Hos 11:7 Isa 1:4 Zech 7:11 Ezek 25:7 Hos 13:14 Jer 1:16 Jer 2:17 Jer 6:11

Jeremiah 15:7⁷The Lord continued, “In every town in the land I will purge them like straw blown away by the wind. I will destroy my people. I will kill off their children. I will do so because they did not change their behavior.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 51:2 Matt 3:12 Isa 41:16 Isa 9:13 Jer 5:3 Jer 18:21 Jer 8:4-5 Ps 1:4 Amos 4:10-12 Deut 28:41

Jeremiah 15:8⁸Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 3:25-4:1 Jer 4:16 Jer 5:6 Jer 6:4-5 Luke 21:35

Jeremiah 15:9⁹The mother who had seven children will grow faint. All the breath will go out of her. Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life. It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day. She will suffer shame and humiliation. I will cause any of them who are still left alive to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies,” says the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:5 Isa 47:9 Amos 8:9-10 Lam 1:1 Ezek 5:12 Jer 15:2-3 Jer 21:7 Jer 44:27 Lam 4:10

Jeremiah 15:10¹⁰I said, “Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all these people are treating me with contempt.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 22:25 Luke 6:22 1 Kgs 18:17-18 1 Kgs 21:20 1 Kgs 22:8 Acts 16:20-22 Acts 17:6-8 Deut 23:19-20 Ezek 3:7-9 Jer 1:18-19

Jeremiah 15:11¹¹The Lord said, “Jerusalem, I will surely send you away for your own good. I will surely bring the enemy upon you in a time of trouble and distress.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 16:7 Jer 29:11-14 Ps 106:46 Ps 37:3-11 Eccl 8:12 Jer 37:3 Jer 21:2 Jer 40:2-6 Jer 42:2 Jer 39:11-12

Jeremiah 15:12¹²Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 1:5-10 Isa 45:9 Jer 1:18-19 Jer 21:4-5 Jer 28:14 Job 40:9

Jeremiah 15:13¹³I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder. I will give it away free of charge for the sins you have committed throughout your land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 17:3 Ps 44:12 Isa 52:3 Jer 20:5 Isa 52:5 Jer 15:8

Jeremiah 15:14¹⁴I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 32:22 Jer 16:13 Deut 28:36 Jer 17:4 Ps 21:9 Deut 28:64 Amos 5:27 Deut 28:25 Deut 29:23 Heb 12:29

Jeremiah 15:15¹⁵I said, “Lord, you know how I suffer. Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 12:3 Ps 69:7-9 Luke 21:17 Jer 17:16 Jer 20:12 Neh 13:22 1 Pet 4:14-16 Jer 20:8 Luke 18:7-8 Matt 10:22

Jeremiah 15:16¹⁶As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you, O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 10:9-10 Ezek 3:1-3 Ps 119:101-103 Job 23:12 Ps 19:10 Ps 119:111 Ps 119:97 Ps 119:72 Jer 14:9

Jeremiah 15:17¹⁷I did not spend my time in the company of other people, laughing and having a good time. I stayed to myself because I felt obligated to you and because I was filled with anger at what they had done.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 3:28 Ps 1:1 Ezek 3:24-25 Ps 26:4-5 2 Cor 6:17 Jer 13:17 Jer 6:11 Ps 102:7 Dan 7:28 Jer 1:10

Jeremiah 15:18¹⁸Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you, like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 30:15 Job 34:6 Mic 1:9 Jer 1:18-19 Jer 14:19 Jer 14:3 Jer 20:7 Jer 30:12 Job 6:15-20 Ps 13:1-3

Jeremiah 15:19¹⁹Because of this, the Lord said, “You must repent of such words and thoughts! If you do, I will restore you to the privilege of serving me. If you say what is worthwhile instead of what is worthless, I will again allow you to be my spokesman. They must become as you have been. You must not become like them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Zech 3:7 Luke 21:15 Lev 10:10 Ezek 44:23 Ezek 22:26 Jude 1:24 Gal 1:10 Heb 5:14 Acts 20:27 Exod 4:12

Jeremiah 15:20²⁰I will make you as strong as a wall to these people, a fortified wall of bronze. They will attack you, but they will not be able to overcome you. For I will be with you to rescue you and deliver you,” says the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 1:18-19 Ezek 3:9 Acts 18:9-10 Ps 124:1-3 Ps 46:7 2 Tim 4:16-17 Isa 41:10 Isa 8:9-10 Jer 1:8 Jer 20:11-12