Jeremiah 12:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

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  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
  • Jer 17:18 : 18 Let them be put to shame who are attacking me, but let me not be shamed; let them be overcome with fear, but let me not be overcome: send on them the day of evil, and put them to destruction twice over.
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.
  • Ps 26:1 : 1 <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.
  • Ps 44:21-22 : 21 Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart. 22 Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.
  • Ps 139:1-4 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets. 2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away. 3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.
  • Ps 139:23 : 23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:
  • Job 23:10 : 10 For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.
  • Jer 50:27 : 27 Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
  • Jer 51:4 : 4 And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.
  • 1 John 3:20-21 : 20 When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things. 21 My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;
  • Jer 18:21-23 : 21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight. 22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly. 23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.
  • Jer 20:12 : 12 But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.
  • Jer 48:15 : 15 He who makes Moab waste has gone up against her; and the best of her young men have gone down to their death, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.
  • Ps 7:9 : 9 O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.
  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.
  • Jer 11:19-20 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name. 20 But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 20:12
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    12 But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.

  • Ps 139:23
    79%

    23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

  • Ps 139:1-5
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    79%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.

    2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

    3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

    4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

    5 I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.

  • Jer 12:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

    2 They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

  • Jer 11:18-20
    3 verses
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    18 And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.

    19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

    20 But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

  • Ps 17:3
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    3 You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

    23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • Ps 26:2
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    2 Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.

  • Ps 142:3
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    3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

  • Jer 15:15
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    15 O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;

  • Jer 12:4
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    4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • Jer 17:16
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    16 As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

    21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

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    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

    12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

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    3 For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

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    28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • Lam 3:59-60
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    59 O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.

    60 You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.

  • Zech 11:4
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    4 This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

  • Ps 31:7
    72%

    7 I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

  • Ps 69:5
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    5 O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you.

  • Jer 17:10
    72%

    10 I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

  • Ps 35:22
    72%

    22 You have seen this, O Lord; be not unmoved: O Lord, be not far from me.

  • Ps 22:16
    72%

    16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
    72%

    27 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • Ps 57:6
    72%

    6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • Ps 44:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.

    22 Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.

  • Ps 118:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

    13 I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

  • Ps 7:9
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    9 O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.

  • Jer 12:10
    72%

    10 The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

  • Ps 31:4
    72%

    4 Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

  • Job 16:13
    72%

    13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

  • Ps 73:21
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    21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • Jer 6:27
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    27 I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.

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    6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

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    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • 2 Sam 22:41
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    41 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.