Jeremiah 6:16 Cross References - YLT

¹⁶ Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where is this—the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'

⁷ Remember days of old—Understand the years of many generations—Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:

⁷ Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions? ⁸ If thou knowest not, O fair among women, Get thee forth by the traces of the flock, And feed thy kids by the shepherds' dwellings!

⁵ O house of Jacob, come, And we walk in the light of Jehovah.'

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

¹² Unto whom He hath said, `This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this—the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear,

²¹ And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This is the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.

²⁵ Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst, And thou sayest, `It is incurable, No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I go.'

²³ But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye—ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

¹² And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do.

¹⁵ But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways—paths of old, To walk in paths—a way not raised up,

²¹ I have spoken unto thee in thine ease, Thou hast said, `I do not hearken,' This is thy way from thy youth, For thou hast not hearkened to My voice.

¹⁶ `The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah—we are not hearkening unto thee;

⁴ Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, That I did command him in Horeb, For all Israel—statutes and judgments.

²⁸ `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, ²⁹ take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

²⁸ `And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.' <sup>29</sup> And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went. ³⁰ `And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I go, sir, and went not; <sup>31</sup> which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God, ³² for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last—to believe him.

²⁹ `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;

³⁹ `Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

⁴⁶ for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me; ⁴⁷ but if his writings ye believe not, how shall ye believe my sayings?'

³⁵ Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

¹⁷ if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

¹¹ and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

¹ What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh? ² for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast—but not before God; ³ for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness;' ⁴ and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt; ⁵ and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned—to righteousness: ⁶ even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

¹² and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

⁶ as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

² for in this were the elders testified of;