Jeremiah 8:3

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“And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.”

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BSBPD

“And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith Jehovah of hosts.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And chosen is death rather than life By all the remnant who are left of this evil family, In all the remaining places, whither I have driven them, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 8:3 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:33But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
  2. Deuteronomy 30:1“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
  3. Deuteronomy 30:4Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.
  4. 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
  5. Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
  6. Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
  7. Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
  8. Jeremiah 23:3Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.
  9. Jeremiah 23:8Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”
  10. Jeremiah 29:14I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
  11. Jeremiah 29:28For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”
  12. Jeremiah 32:36Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
  13. Jeremiah 40:12they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.
  14. Jeremiah 44:2“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster that I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation
  15. Jeremiah 44:6Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.
  16. Daniel 9:7To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
  17. Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
  18. Revelation 6:16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
  19. Revelation 9:6In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.

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