Jeremiah 44:7
Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
KJV
Et nunc hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël : Quare vos facitis malum grande hoc contra animas vestras, ut intereat ex vobis vir et mulier, parvulus et lactens, de medio Judæ, nec relinquatur vobis quidquam residuum :
Vulgate
Οὕτως εἶπεν Κύριος Οὕτως ἐρεῖς πρὸς βασιλέα Ἰούδα τὸν ἀποστείλαντα πρὸς σὲ τοῦ ἐκζητῆσαί με Ἰδοὺ δύναμις Φαραὼ ἡ ἐξελθοῦσα ὑμῖν εἰς βοήθειαν ἀποστρέψουσιν εἰς γῆν Αἰγύπτου,
LXX
Therefore now thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;
ASV
וְ/עַתָּ֡ה כֹּֽה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָה֩ אֱלֹהֵ֨י צְבָא֜וֹת אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לָ/מָה֩ אַתֶּ֨ם עֹשִׂ֜ים רָעָ֤ה גְדוֹלָה֙ אֶל נַפְשֹׁ֣תֵ/כֶ֔ם לְ/הַכְרִ֨ית לָ/כֶ֧ם אִישׁ וְ/אִשָּׁ֛ה עוֹלֵ֥ל וְ/יוֹנֵ֖ק מִ/תּ֣וֹךְ יְהוּדָ֑ה לְ/בִלְתִּ֛י הוֹתִ֥יר לָ/כֶ֖ם שְׁאֵרִֽית
Hebrew
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In this verse
In the original Hebrew
24 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Sam 15:3 — Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
- Deut 32:25 — The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
- Ezek 33:11 — Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die,
- Hab 2:10 — Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
- Jer 7:19 — Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
- Jer 9:21 — For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
- Jer 44:8 — In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be
- Jer 44:14 — So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to
- Jer 51:22 — With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
- Josh 6:21 — And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
- Judg 21:11 — And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
- Lam 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets o
- Num 16:38 — The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be
- Prov 5:22 — His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
- Prov 15:32 — He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.