Jeremiah 44:18 Cross References - Matthew

¹⁸ But sence we left, to offre, and to do sacrifice vnto the Quene of Heauen, we haue had scarcenes of all thynges, and peryshe wyth the swerde and honger.

⁵ we remembre the fysh whych we should eate in Egypt for noughte and of the Cucumbers and melouns, lekes, onyouns and garleke. ⁶ But now oure soules ar dryed a waye, for oure eyes loke on nothyng els, saue vpon Manna.

¹⁴ They say vnto God: go from vs: we desyre not the knowledge of thy wayes. ¹⁵ What maner of felow is the Almightye, that we shoulde serue him? What profyt should we haue, to submitte oure selues vnto hym?

⁹ They stretche forth their mouthe vnto the heauen, and their tongue goeth thorow the worlde. ¹⁰ Therfore fall the people vnto them, and thereout sucke they no small auauntage. ¹¹ Tush (saye they) howe shoulde God perceiue it? is there knowlege in the most hyest? ¹² Lo, these are the vngodly, these prospere in the worlde, these haue ryches in possession. ¹³ Shoulde I then clense my herte in vayne (thougt I) and washe my handes in innocency? ¹⁴ Wherefore shoulde I be then punyshed dayly, & be chastened euery mornynge? ¹⁵ Yea, I had almoost also sayd euen as they: but lo, then shoulde I haue condemned the generacion of thy chyldren.

¹² All the Iewes (I say) returned out of al places where they fled vnto: and came into the lande of Iuda to Godoliah vnto Mazphah, and gathered wine & other frutes, and that very much.

¹³ Ye speake harde wordes agaynst me, sayeth the Lorde. And yet ye saye: What haue we spoken agaynst the? ¹⁴ Ye haue sayed. Is it but lost labour, to serue God? What profyt haue we for keping his commaundementes, and for walkinge humbly before the Lorde of Hostes? ¹⁵ Therfore maye we saye, that the proude are happye, and that they whiche deale with the vngodlynesse, are sette vp: for they tempte God, and yet escape.