Jeremiah 8:6 Cross References - LITV

⁶ I listened and heard. They did not speak so. No man repented because of this evil, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned in their own courses, as a horse rushes into the battle.

² I will say to God, Do not condemn me; make me know why You contend with me.

²⁷ He will observe to men and say, I have sinned, and I have perverted uprightness; and it was not equally repaid to me; ²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from passing over into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.

¹⁹ Have you given the horse its strength: have you clothed its neck with a mane ²⁰ Can you make him leap like a locust; the majesty of his snorting is terrifying? ²¹ They paw in the valley and he rejoices in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons; ²² he mocks at fear, and is not terrified; and he does not turn back from the sword. ²³ The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin. ²⁴ He swallows the ground with quivering and trembling, and he does not stand still for the sound of the ram's horn. ²⁵ When the ram's horn sounds, he says, Aha! And he smells the battle from a distance, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

² Jehovah looked down from Heaven on the sons of mankind, to see if there were any discerning and seeking God:

¹⁸ And so Jehovah waits to be gracious to you. And for this He is exalted to have mercy on you; for Jehovah is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

¹⁶ And He saw that there was no man, and He was astonished that there was no intercessor. And His own arm saved for Him; and His righteousness sustained Him.

²⁴ a wild ass used to the wilderness. In the passion of her desire she snuffs up the wind in her time. Who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her. ²⁵ Withhold your foot from being bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, It is hopeless! For I love strangers, and after them I will go.

¹ Roam around in Jerusalem's streets and see now, and know, and seek in her plazas if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

²⁸ Because he considers and turns from all his transgressions that he has done, surely he shall live; he shall not die.

³⁰ And I sought among them a man to wall up a wall and stand in the breach before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

² The pious has perished from the earth, and the upright is not among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.

⁵ And now, so says Jehovah of hosts: Set your heart on your ways!

⁷ So says Jehovah of hosts: Set your heart on your ways.

¹⁶ Then those fearing Jehovah spoke together, each man to his neighbor. And Jehovah gave attention and heard. And a Book of Remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Jehovah, and for those esteeming His name.

¹⁷ But coming to himself he said, How many servants of my father have plenty of loaves, and I am perishing with famine. ¹⁸ Rising up, I will go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I sinned against Heaven and before you, ¹⁹ and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.

⁹ The Lord of the promise is not slow, as some deem slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not having purposed any of us to perish, but all of us to come to repentance.

²⁰ And the rest of men, those not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they will not worship demons, and "golden idols, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden idols, which neither are able to see, nor to hear," nor to walk. Dan. 5:23; Psa. 115:4 -7; 135:15-17