Jeremiah 6:7 Cross References - Leeser

⁷ As a well sendeth forth its waters, so doth she cause her wickedness to spring forth: violence and robbery are heard in her; in my presence there are continually disease and wounds.

^{9 (55:10)} Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city; ^{10 (55:11)} Day and night do these encompass it upon her walls: and wrong and trouble are in her midst. ^{11 (55:12)} Mischief is in her midst: guile and deceit depart not from her streets.

²³ Above all that is to be guarded, keep thy heart, for out of it are the issues of life.

²⁰ But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can never be at rest, but its waters cast up mire and dirt.

⁸ For as often as I speak must I cry out, violence and wasting must I proclaim; because the word of the Lord is become unto me a disgrace, and a derision, all the time.

¹¹ The violence is grown up into the staff of wickedness: nothing is left of them, and nothing of their multitude, and nothing of theirs; and there shall be no lamenting for them.

²³ Make chains; for the land is full of blood-guiltiness, and the city is full of violence.

³ Then say thou, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, O city that sheddeth blood in her midst, that her time of sorrow may come, and that hath made idols for herself to become unclean: ⁴ Through thy blood which thou hast shed, are thou become guilty; and through thy idols which thou hast made art thou become unclean; and thou hast caused thy days of destruction to draw near, and thou art come even unto thy years; therefore do I make thee a disgrace unto the nations, and a mocking to all the countries. ⁵ Those who are near, and those who are far from thee, shall mock thee, O thou unclean in name, and great in confusion! ⁶ Behold, the princes of Israel were each ready with his arm within thee, in order to shed blood. ⁷ Father and mother they esteemed lightly within thee, toward the stranger they acted with extortion in the midst of thee, the fatherless and the widow they oppressed within thee. ⁸ My holy things thou didst despise, and my sabbaths thou didst profane. ⁹ Tale-bearers also were within thee, in order to shed blood; and upon the mountains did they eat within thee; incest did they commit in the midst of thee. ¹⁰ Their father’s nakedness they uncovered within thee; her that was unclean in her separation did they violate within thee. ¹¹ And one with his neighbor’s wife did commit abomination; and another did defile his daughter-in-law with incest; and another did violate his sister, the daughter of his father, within thee. ¹² Bribes they took within thee, in order to shed blood; interest and increase didst thou take, and thou didst acquire gain off thy neighbors by extortion: and me thou didst forget, saith the Lord Eternal.

⁷ For her blood was in the midst of her; on the naked rock did she place it: she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it over with dust.

¹ Woe to those that devise wickedness, and resolve on evil upon their couches! by the first light of the morning they execute it, if they have it in the power of their hand. ² And they covet fields, and rob them; and houses, and take them away: so they defraud the master and his house, and the man and his heritage.

⁸ But long since is my people risen up as an enemy: from the garment do you pull off the ornament; of those that pass by securely ye make men returned from war. ⁹ The wives of my people do you drive out of their delightful houses; from their children do ye take away my ornament for ever. ¹⁰ Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a grievous destruction.

¹ And I said, Hear, I pray you, O ye heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know what is justice? ² But they are those who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and who crush their bones, and chop them in pieces, as that to be put in a pot, and as flesh within a caldron.

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and make crooked all that is straight. ¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood-guiltiness, and Jerusalem with wrong. ¹¹ Her heads judge for bribes, and her priests teach for reward, and her prophets divine for money: and yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? evil cannot come over us. ¹² Therefore for your sake shall Zion be ploughed up as a field, and Jerusalem shall become ruinous heaps, and the mount of the house, forest-covered high-places.

² The pious hath disappeared out of the land; and the upright among men there is none; all of them lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. ³ For the evil of your hands you expect good? while the prince demandeth bribes, and the judge acteth for pay; and the great man is only speaking the wilful pleasure of his soul: and so do they make a network of wrong.