Jeremiah 14:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 17:13 : 13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
  • Ps 50:15 : 15 Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
  • Isa 43:3 : 3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.
  • Isa 43:11 : 11 I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.
  • Ps 9:9 : 9 The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;
  • Ps 37:39-40 : 39 But the Lord is the saviour of the upright: he is their strength in the time of trouble. 40 And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.
  • Jer 50:7 : 7 They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
  • Isa 45:21 : 21 Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.
  • Judg 19:17 : 17 And when he saw the traveller in the street of the town, the old man said, Where are you going? and where do you come from?
  • Joel 3:16 : 16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.
  • Acts 28:20 : 20 But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.
  • 2 Cor 1:4-5 : 4 Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater.
  • 1 Tim 1:1 : 1 Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the order of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope;
  • Ps 46:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song.> God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.
  • Ps 10:1 : 1 Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?
  • Isa 45:15 : 15 Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
  • Ps 138:7 : 7 Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.

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    9 Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.

  • Jer 17:13
    75%

    13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

  • Ps 131:3
    74%

    3 O Israel, have hope in the Lord, from this time and for ever.

  • Isa 33:2
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    2 O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.

  • Ps 130:7
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    7 O Israel, have hope in the Lord; for with the Lord is mercy and full salvation.

  • Jer 14:19
    73%

    19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

  • Ps 44:23-24
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    73%

    23 Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

    24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

  • Jer 3:23
    73%

    23 Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

  • Ps 14:7
    72%

    7 May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

  • Jer 14:7
    72%

    7 Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

  • Ps 39:7
    72%

    7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

  • Ps 10:1
    72%

    1 Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

  • Jer 2:14
    71%

    14 Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?

  • Hos 14:1
    71%

    1 Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.

  • Jer 2:25
    71%

    25 Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

  • Hos 8:2
    71%

    2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

  • Isa 40:27
    71%

    27 Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?

  • Isa 45:17
    71%

    17 But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.

  • Hos 13:9
    71%

    9 I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?

  • Ps 53:6
    71%

    6 May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.

  • Isa 45:15
    71%

    15 Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!

  • Lam 4:17
    71%

    17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

  • Isa 17:14
    71%

    14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

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    70%

    15 In you, O Lord, is my hope: you will give me an answer, O Lord, my God.

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    70%

    7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

  • Jer 48:27
    70%

    27 For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.

  • Isa 8:17
    70%

    17 And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.

  • Jer 51:5
    70%

    5 For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Lam 5:20
    70%

    20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

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    70%

    14 The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.

  • Jer 30:7
    70%

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    70%

    9 O Israel, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.

  • Jer 8:19
    70%

    19 The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?

  • Ps 43:2
    70%

    2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

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    70%

    1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

  • Jer 16:19
    70%

    19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

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    70%

    4 See, the eyes of Israel's keeper will not be shut in sleep.

  • Isa 49:8
    70%

    8 This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the people, putting the land in order, and giving them the heritages which now are waste;

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    69%

    31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

  • Ps 39:12
    69%

    12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

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    69%

    1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.

  • Ezra 9:15
    69%

    15 O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

  • Ps 13:1
    69%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

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    17 Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

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    11 Have you not sent us away from you, O God? and you go not out with our armies.

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    69%

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    5 You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

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    5 Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.