Jeremiah 12:3
But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
KJV
Et tu, Domine, nosti me, vidisti me, et probasti cor meum tecum. Congrega eos quasi gregem ad victimam, et sanctifica eos in die occisionis.
Vulgate
καὶ σύ, Κύριε, γινώσκεις με, δεδοκίμακας τὴν καρδίαν μου ἐναντίον σου· ἅγνισον αὐτοὺς εἰς ἡμέραν σφαγῆς αὐτῶν.
LXX
But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
ASV
וְ/אַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ יְדַעְתָּ֔/נִי תִּרְאֵ֕/נִי וּ/בָחַנְתָּ֥ לִבִּ֖/י אִתָּ֑/ךְ הַתִּקֵ/ם֙ כְּ/צֹ֣אן לְ/טִבְחָ֔ה וְ/הַקְדִּשֵׁ֖/ם לְ/י֥וֹם הֲרֵגָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 20:3 — I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
- 2Pet 2:12 — But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
- Acts 8:32 — The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
- Gen 6:7 — And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
- Jas 5:5 — Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
- Jas 5:5 — Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
- Jer 15:15 — O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
- Jer 17:18 — Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
- Jer 21:6 — And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
- Jer 50:27 — Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
- Ps 17:3 — Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
- Ps 26:1 — Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
- Ps 44:21 — Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
- Ps 49:14 — Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
- Ps 139:1 — O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
- Ps 139:1 — O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
- Ps 139:23 — Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
- Rom 8:36 — As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.