Jeremiah 6:16
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
KJV
Hæc dicit Dominus : State super vias, et videte, et interrogate de semitis antiquis quæ sit via bona, et ambulate in ea : et invenietis refrigerium animabus vestris. Et dixerunt : Non ambulabimus.
Vulgate
Τάδε λέγει Κύριος Στῆτε ἐπὶ ταῖς ὁδοῖς καὶ ἴδετε καὶ ἐρωτήσατε τρίβους Κυρίου αἰωνίους, καὶ ἴδετε ποία ἐστὶν ἡ ὁδὸς ἡ ἀγαθή, καὶ βαδίζετε ἐν αὐτῇ, καὶ εὑρήσετε ἁγνισμὸν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν· καὶ εἶπαν Οὐ πορευσόμεθα.
LXX
Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.
ASV
כֹּ֣ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֡ה עִמְדוּ֩ עַל דְּרָכִ֨ים וּ/רְא֜וּ וְ/שַׁאֲל֣וּ לִ/נְתִב֣וֹת עוֹלָ֗ם אֵי זֶ֨ה דֶ֤רֶךְ הַ/טּוֹב֙ וּ/לְכוּ בָ֔/הּ וּ/מִצְא֥וּ מַרְגּ֖וֹעַ לְ/נַפְשְׁ/כֶ֑ם וַ/יֹּאמְר֖וּ לֹ֥א נֵלֵֽךְ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
18 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 8:36 — Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given
- 1Sam 12:23 — Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
- 2Tim 4:3 — For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
- Acts 17:11 — These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
- Col 2:6 — As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
- Deut 32:7 — Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
- Exod 33:14 — And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
- Ezek 33:31 — And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth
- Heb 4:3 — For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
- Heb 6:12 — That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
- Heb 6:12 — That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
- Heb 11:2 — For by it the elders obtained a good report.
- Isa 2:5 — O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
- Isa 8:20 — To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- Isa 28:12 — To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
- Isa 28:12 — To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
- Isa 30:21 — And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
- Isa 30:21 — And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
- Isa 48:17 — Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
- Jer 2:25 — Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
- Jer 7:23 — But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
- Jer 18:12 — And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
- Jer 18:15 — Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
- Jer 18:15 — Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
- Jer 22:21 — I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
- Jer 22:21 — I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
- Jer 32:39 — And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
- Jer 42:3 — That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.
- Jer 44:16 — As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
- Jer 50:5 — They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
- John 5:39 — Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
- John 5:46 — For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
- John 8:32 — And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
- John 12:35 — Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
- John 13:17 — If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
- Luke 1:79 — To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 5:39 — No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
- Luke 13:34 — O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and
- Luke 16:29 — Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
- Mal 4:4 — Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.