Jeremiah 17:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:19-20 : 19 My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears. 20 News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
  • Jer 14:17-21 : 17 And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow. 18 If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge. 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. 20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you. 21 Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.
  • Ezek 3:14-19 : 14 And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me. 15 Then I came to those who had been taken away as prisoners, who were at Telabib by the river Chebar, and I was seated among them full of wonder for seven days. 16 And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger. 18 When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood. 19 But if you give the evil-doer word of his danger, and he is not turned from his sin or from his evil way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing; but your life will be safe.
  • Ezek 33:7-9 : 7 So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger. 8 When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly overtake you; and you say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way; death will overtake that evil man in his evil-doing, but I will make you responsible for his blood. 9 But if you make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way for the purpose of turning him from it, and he is not turned from his way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, but your life will be safe.
  • Amos 7:14-15 : 14 Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees: 15 And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.
  • Acts 20:20 : 20 And how I kept back nothing which might be of profit to you, teaching you publicly and privately,
  • Acts 20:27 : 27 For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.
  • Rom 9:1-3 : 1 I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 That I am full of sorrow and pain without end. 3 For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;
  • Jas 3:1 : 1 Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.
  • Jer 1:4-9 : 4 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5 Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations. 6 Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child. 7 But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for wherever I send you, you are to go, and whatever I give you orders to say, you are to say. 8 Have no fear because of them: for I am with you, to keep you safe, says the Lord. 9 Then the Lord put out his hand, touching my mouth; and the Lord said to me, See, I have put my words in your mouth: 10 See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 17:17
    78%

    17 Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.

  • Jer 17:15
    78%

    15 See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

  • Ps 17:3-6
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

    4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

    5 I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

    6 My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.

  • Job 23:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

    12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

  • Ps 18:21-23
    3 verses
    76%

    21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

    22 For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

    23 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

  • Ps 31:22
    75%

    22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • 2 Sam 22:22-23
    2 verses
    75%

    22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

    23 For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

  • Ps 23:1
    75%

    1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.

  • Jer 12:3
    74%

    3 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.

  • Job 23:17
    74%

    17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • Jer 15:17
    73%

    17 I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.

  • Ps 26:1
    73%

    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 142:3
    73%

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

  • Ps 40:9
    73%

    9 I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words.

  • Ps 18:36
    73%

    36 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

  • Ps 40:11
    73%

    11 Take not away your gentle mercies from me, O Lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever.

  • Ps 71:17
    73%

    17 O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

  • Ps 41:12
    73%

    12 And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.

  • Jer 11:18-20
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Jer 15:15
    73%

    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;

  • Ps 16:1
    73%

    1 <Michtam. Of David.> Keep me safe, O God: for in you I have put my faith.

  • 2 Sam 22:37
    72%

    37 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.

  • Ps 38:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

    17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

  • Ps 38:21
    72%

    21 Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.

  • Ps 35:22
    72%

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

  • Ps 31:14
    72%

    14 But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

  • Job 16:17
    72%

    17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

  • Ps 27:8
    72%

    8 When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

  • Ps 16:8
    72%

    8 I have put the Lord before me at all times; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.

  • Ps 22:19
    72%

    19 Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

  • Ps 73:25
    72%

    25 Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.

  • Ps 141:3
    72%

    3 O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

  • Ps 118:18
    72%

    18 The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

  • Isa 37:28
    72%

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

  • Job 7:19
    72%

    19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

  • Job 31:30
    72%

    30 (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

  • Ps 17:1
    72%

    1 <A Prayer. Of David.> Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.

  • 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 131:1
    72%

    1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.

  • Ps 38:9
    72%

    9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.