Jeremiah 12:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

But thou, Lord, knowest me: thou hast seene me, and tried mine heart towarde thee: pull them out like sheepe for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

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  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 I beseech thee, O Lorde, remember nowe, howe I haue walked before thee in trueth and with a perfite heart, and haue done that which is good in thy sight: and Hezekiah wept sore.
  • Jer 17:18 : 18 Let them bee confounded, that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be afraide, but let not me be afraide: bring vpon them the day of aduersitie, and destroy them with double destruction.
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and in wantonnes. Ye haue nourished your heartes, as in a day of slaughter.
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 Thou hast prooued and visited mine heart in the night: thou hast tryed me, and foundest nothing: for I was purposed that my mouth should not offend.
  • Ps 26:1 : 1 A Psalme of Dauid. Ivdge me, O Lorde, for I haue walked in mine innocency: my trust hath bene also in the Lord: therefore shall I not slide.
  • Ps 44:21-22 : 21 Shall not God searche this out? for hee knoweth the secrets of the heart. 22 Surely for thy sake are we slaine continually, & are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.
  • Ps 139:1-4 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord, thou hast tried me and knowen me. 2 Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off. 3 Thou compassest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.
  • Ps 139:23 : 23 Try mee, O God, and knowe mine heart: prooue me and know my thoughtes,
  • Job 23:10 : 10 But he knoweth my way, & trieth mee, and I shal come forth like the gold.
  • Jer 50:27 : 27 Destroy all her bullockes: let them goe downe to the slaughter. Wo vnto them, for their day is come, and the time of their visitation.
  • Jer 51:4 : 4 Thus the slaine shal fall in the lande of the Caldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streetes.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He said vnto him the third time, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me? Peter was sorie because he said to him the third time, Louest thou me? and said vnto him, Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I loue thee. Iesus saide vnto him, Feede my sheepe.
  • 1 John 3:20-21 : 20 For if our heart condemne vs, God is greater then our heart, and knoweth all things. 21 Beloued, if our heart condemne vs not, then haue we boldnes toward God.
  • Jer 18:21-23 : 21 Therefore, deliuer vp their children to famine, and let them drop away by the force of the sworde, and let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widowes: and let their husbandes be put to death, and let their yong men be slayne by the sword in the battell. 22 Let the crye bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring an hoste suddenly vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feete. 23 Yet Lord thou knowest al their counsel against me tendeth to death: forgiue not their iniquitie, neither put out their sinne from thy sight, but let them be ouerthrowen before thee: deale thus with them in the time of thine anger.
  • Jer 20:12 : 12 But, O Lorde of hostes, that tryest the righteous, and seest the reines and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for vnto thee haue I opened my cause.
  • Jer 48:15 : 15 Moab is destroyed, & his cities burnt vp, & his chose yong men are gone downe to slaughter, saith ye King, whose name is ye Lord of hostes.
  • Ps 7:9 : 9 Oh let the malice of the wicked come to an ende: but guide thou the iust: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reines.
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 The Lorde will try the righteous: but the wicked and him that loueth iniquitie, doeth his soule hate.
  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I knowe also, my God, that thou tryest the heart, and hast pleasure in righteousnesse: I haue offred willingly in the vprightnesse of mine heart all these things: now also haue I seene thy people which are found here, to offer vnto thee willingly with ioy.
  • Jer 11:19-20 : 19 But I was like a lambe, or a bullocke, that is brought to the slaughter, and I knewe not that they had deuised thus against me, saying, Let vs destroy the tree with the fruite thereof, and cut him out of the lande of the liuing, that his name may be no more in memory. 20 But O Lord of hostes, that iudgest righteously, and triest the reines and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for vnto thee haue I opened my cause.

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  • Jer 20:12
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    12But, O Lorde of hostes, that tryest the righteous, and seest the reines and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for vnto thee haue I opened my cause.

  • Ps 139:23
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    23Try mee, O God, and knowe mine heart: prooue me and know my thoughtes,

  • Ps 139:1-5
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    1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord, thou hast tried me and knowen me.

    2Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.

    3Thou compassest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes.

    4For there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.

    5Thou holdest mee straite behinde and before, and layest thine hand vpon me.

  • Jer 12:1-2
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    1O Lorde, if I dispute with thee, thou art righteous: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgresse?

    2Thou hast planted them, and they haue taken roote: they grow, and bring forth fruite: thou art neere in their mouth, and farre from their reines.

  • Jer 11:18-20
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    18And the Lorde hath taught me, and I knowe it, euen then thou shewedst mee their practises.

    19But I was like a lambe, or a bullocke, that is brought to the slaughter, and I knewe not that they had deuised thus against me, saying, Let vs destroy the tree with the fruite thereof, and cut him out of the lande of the liuing, that his name may be no more in memory.

    20But O Lord of hostes, that iudgest righteously, and triest the reines and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for vnto thee haue I opened my cause.

  • Ps 17:3
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    3Thou hast prooued and visited mine heart in the night: thou hast tryed me, and foundest nothing: for I was purposed that my mouth should not offend.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22Let the crye bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring an hoste suddenly vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feete.

    23Yet Lord thou knowest al their counsel against me tendeth to death: forgiue not their iniquitie, neither put out their sinne from thy sight, but let them be ouerthrowen before thee: deale thus with them in the time of thine anger.

  • Ps 26:2
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    2Proue me, O Lorde, and trie mee: examine my reines, and mine heart.

  • Ps 142:3
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    3Though my spirit was in perplexitie in me, yet thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily layde a snare for me.

  • Jer 15:15
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    15O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visite me, & reuenge me of my persecuters: take mee not away in the continuance of thine anger: know that for thy sake I haue suffered rebuke.

  • Jer 12:4
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    4Howe long shall the lande mourne, and the herbes of euery fielde wither, for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein? the beastes are consumed and the birdes, because they sayd, He wil not see our last ende.

  • Jer 17:16
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    16But I haue not thrust in my selfe for a pastour after thee, neither haue I desired the day of miserie, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips, was right before thee.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20Behold, O Lorde, howe I am troubled: my bowels swell: mine heart is turned within me, for I am ful of heauinesse: the sword spoyleth abroad, as death doeth at home.

    21They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.

    22Let al their wickednes come before thee: do vnto them, as thou hast done vnto me, for all my transgressions: for my sighes are many, & mine heart is heauy.

  • Lam 3:11-12
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    11He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

    12He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow.

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    3For loe, they haue layd waite for my soule: the mightie men are gathered against me, not for mine offence, nor for my sinne, O Lord.

  • Isa 37:28
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    28But I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy comming in, and thy fury against me.

  • Lam 3:59-60
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    59O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.

    60Thou hast seene all their vengeance, and all their deuises against me.

  • Zech 11:4
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    4Thus sayeth the Lorde my God, Feede the sheepe of the slaughter.

  • Ps 31:7
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    7I wil be glad and reioyce in thy mercie: for thou hast seene my trouble: thou hast knowen my soule in aduersities,

  • Ps 69:5
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    5O God, thou knowest my foolishnesse, and my fautes are not hid from thee.

  • Jer 17:10
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    10I the Lord search the heart, and try ye reines, euen to giue euery man according to his wayes, and according to the fruite of his workes.

  • Ps 35:22
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    22Thou hast seene it, O Lorde: keepe not silence: be not farre from me, O Lord.

  • Ps 22:16
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    16For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete.

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
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    27I knowe thy dwelling, yea, thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy furie against me.

  • Ps 57:6
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    6They haue layd a net for my steps: my soule is pressed downe: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the mids of it. Selah.

  • Ps 44:21-22
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    72%

    21Shall not God searche this out? for hee knoweth the secrets of the heart.

    22Surely for thy sake are we slaine continually, & are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

  • Ps 118:12-13
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    12They came about mee like bees, but they were quenched as a fire of thornes: for in the Name of the Lord I shall destroy them.

    13Thou hast thrust sore at me, that I might fall: but the Lord hath holpen me.

  • Ps 7:9
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    9Oh let the malice of the wicked come to an ende: but guide thou the iust: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reines.

  • Jer 12:10
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    10Many pastors haue destroyed my vineyarde, and troden my portion vnder foote: of my pleasant portion they haue made a desolate wildernesse.

  • Ps 31:4
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    4Drawe mee out of the nette, that they haue layde priuilie for mee: for thou art my strength.

  • Job 16:13
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    13His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, & powreth my gall vpon the ground.

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    21Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:

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    27I haue set thee for a defence and fortres among my people, that thou maiest knowe and trie their waies.

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    6They gather together, and keepe them selues close: they marke my steps, because they waite for my soule.

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    13From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.

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    41And thou hast giuen me the neckes of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.