| 1 | Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction. | Jsh 15:63 Jsh 18:21-28 Jg 1:21 |
| 2 | The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off. | Jer 4:31 Isa 1:8 Isa 3:16 Isa 3:17 Lam 2:1 Lam 2:13 |
| 3 | Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place. | Nah 3:18 |
| 4 | Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. | Jer 5:10 Jer 51:27 Jer 51:28 Isa 5:26-30 Isa 13:2-5 Jl 3:9 |
| 5 | Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces. | Jer 9:21 Jer 17:27 Jer 52:13 2Ch 36:19 Ps 48:3 Isa 32:14 Hos 8:14 Am 2:5 Am 3:10 Am 3:11 Zc 11:1 |
| 6 | For thus has Yahweh of Hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. |
| 7 | As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds. | Pr 4:23 Isa 57:20 Jm 3:10-12 |
| 8 | Be you instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited. | Jer 4:14 Jer 7:3-7 Jer 17:23 Jer 31:19 Jer 32:33 Jer 35:13-15 Dt 32:29 Ps 2:10 Ps 50:17 Ps 94:12 Pr 4:13 Zep 3:7 |
| 9 | Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. | Jer 16:16 Jer 49:9 Jer 52:28-30 Ob 1:5 Ob 1:6 Rev 14:18 |
| 10 | To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can`t listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it. | Jer 5:4 Jer 5:5 Isa 28:9-13 Isa 53:1 |
| 11 | Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days. | Jer 20:9 Jb 32:18 Jb 32:19 Ezk 3:14 Mic 3:8 Ac 4:20 Ac 17:16 Ac 18:5 |
| 12 | Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh. | Jer 8:10 Dt 28:30-33 Dt 28:39-43 Isa 65:21 Isa 65:22 Lam 5:3 Lam 5:11 Zep 1:13 |
| 13 | For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely. | Jer 8:10 Jer 14:18 Jer 22:17 Jer 23:11 Isa 56:9-12 Isa 57:17 Ezk 22:12 Ezk 33:31 Mic 2:1 Mic 2:2 Mic 3:2 Mic 3:3 Mic 3:5 Mic 3:11 Zep 3:3 Zep 3:4 Lk 16:14 1Ti 3:3 2Pe 2:3 2Pe 2:14 2Pe 2:15 |
| 14 | They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. | Jer 8:11 Jer 8:12 Ezk 13:10 |
| 15 | Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh. | Jer 3:3 Jer 8:12 Isa 3:9 |
| 16 | Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein]. | Jer 18:15 Dt 32:7 So 1:7 So 1:8 Isa 8:20 Mal 4:4 Lk 16:29 Jn 5:39 Jn 5:46 Jn 5:47 Ac 17:11 Ro 4:1-6 Ro 4:12-6 Heb 6:12 Heb 11:2-40 Heb 12:1 |
| 17 | I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not listen. | Jer 25:4 Isa 21:11 Isa 56:10 Ezk 3:17-21 Ezk 33:2-9 Hab 2:1 Ac 20:27-31 Heb 13:17 |
| 18 | Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them. | Jer 4:10 Jer 31:10 Dt 29:24-28 Ps 50:4-6 Isa 5:3 Mic 6:5 |
| 19 | Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. | Jer 22:29 Dt 4:26 Dt 30:19 Dt 32:1 Isa 1:2 Mic 6:2 |
| 20 | To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me. | Ps 40:6 Ps 50:7-13 Ps 50:16-13 Ps 50:17-13 Ps 66:3 Isa 1:11 Isa 66:3 Ezk 20:39 Am 5:21 Am 5:22 Mic 6:6-8 |
| 21 | Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish. | Jer 13:16 Isa 8:14 Ezk 3:20 Ro 9:33 Ro 11:9 1Pe 2:8 |
| 22 | Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. | Jer 6:1 Jer 1:14 Jer 1:15 Jer 5:15 Jer 10:22 Jer 25:9 Jer 50:41-43 |
| 23 | They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion. | Jer 5:16 Jer 50:42 Isa 13:18 Ezk 23:22-25 Hab 1:6-10 |
| 24 | We have heard the report of it; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail. | Jer 4:6-9 Jer 4:19-21 Isa 28:19 Ezk 21:6 Ezk 21:7 Hab 3:16 |
| 25 | Don`t go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side. | Jer 4:5 Jer 8:14 Jer 14:18 Jg 5:6 Jg 5:7 |
| 26 | Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us. | Jer 6:14 Jer 4:11 Jer 8:19 Jer 8:21 Jer 8:22 Jer 9:1 Jer 14:17 Isa 22:4 Lam 2:11 Lam 3:48 Lam 4:3 Lam 4:6 Lam 4:10 |
| 27 | I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way. | Jer 1:18 Jer 15:20 Ezk 3:8-10 Ezk 20:4 Ezk 22:2 |
| 28 | They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly. | Jer 5:23 Isa 1:5 Isa 31:6 |
| 29 | The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away. | Jer 9:7 Pr 17:3 Zc 13:9 Mal 3:2 Mal 3:3 1Pe 1:7 1Pe 4:12 |
| 30 | Refuse silver shall men them, because Yahweh has rejected them. | Ps 119:119 Pr 25:4 Isa 1:22 Isa 1:25 Ezk 22:18 Ezk 22:19 Mt 5:13 |
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