Jeremiah 12:3

American Standard Version (1901)

But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

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  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
  • Jer 17:18 : 18 Let them be put to shame that persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 Thou hast proved my heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
  • Ps 26:1 : 1 [[ A Psalm] of David]. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.
  • Ps 44:21-22 : 21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • Ps 139:1-4 : 1 [For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David]. O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me] . 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
  • Ps 139:23 : 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;
  • Job 23:10 : 10 But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
  • Jer 50:27 : 27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
  • Jer 51:4 : 4 And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
  • 1 John 3:20-21 : 20 because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;
  • Jer 18:21-23 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 23 Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.
  • Jer 20:12 : 12 But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
  • Jer 48:15 : 15 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
  • Ps 7:9 : 9 O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, that are present here, offer willingly unto thee.
  • Jer 11:19-20 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. 20 But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

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    12But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

  • Ps 139:23
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    23Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;

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    1[For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David]. O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me] .

    2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.

    3Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.

    4For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

    5Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy hand upon me.

  • Jer 12:1-2
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    1Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

    2Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

  • Jer 11:18-20
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    18And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings.

    19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

    20But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

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    3Thou hast proved my heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

    23Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

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    2Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind.

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    15O Jehovah, thou knowest; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.

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    21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before thee; And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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    59O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

    60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

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    4Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;

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    5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my sins are not hid from thee.

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    10I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

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    22Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; Keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

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    16For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
    72%

    27But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

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    21Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

    22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

  • Ps 118:12-13
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    12They compassed me about like bees; They are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.

    13Thou didst thrust sore at me that I might fall; But Jehovah helped me.

  • Ps 7:9
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    9O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.

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    10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

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    4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; For thou art my stronghold.

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    21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:

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