Jeremiah 12:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. 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 I beg You, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • Jer 17:18 : 18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: 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 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
  • Ps 26:1 : 1 Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity; I have also trusted in the LORD; therefore I shall not fall.
  • Ps 44:21-22 : 21 Shall not God search this out? for He knows the secrets of the heart. 22 Yes, for Your sake we are killed all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • Ps 139:1-4 : 1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar. 3 You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O LORD, You know 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 knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
  • Jer 50:27 : 27 Slay all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
  • Jer 51:4 : 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and those thrust through in her streets.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep.
  • 1 John 3:20-21 : 20 For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, then we have confidence toward God.
  • Jer 18:21-23 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet. 23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.
  • Jer 20:12 : 12 But, O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, and sees the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I opened my cause.
  • Jer 48:15 : 15 Moab is plundered, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
  • Ps 7:9 : 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 The LORD tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I know also, my God, that You test the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now I have seen with joy Your people, who are present here, to offer willingly to You.
  • Jer 11:19-20 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more. 20 But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you.

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    12But, O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, and sees the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I opened my cause.

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

  • Ps 139:1-5
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    1O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

    2You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar.

    3You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

    4For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.

    5You have hedged me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.

  • Jer 12:1-2
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    1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?

    2You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their hearts.

  • Jer 11:18-20
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    18And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then you showed me their doings.

    19But I was like a gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.

    20But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you.

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    3You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.

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    2Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; test my mind and my heart.

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    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me.

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    15O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.

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    21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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    12He has bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow.

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    4Thus says the LORD my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter.

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    22This you have seen, O LORD; keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from me.

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  • Ps 44:21-22
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    22Yes, for Your sake we are killed all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

  • Ps 118:12-13
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    12They surrounded me like bees; they are quenched like the fire of thorns, for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

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    10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trampled My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • Ps 31:4
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    4Pull me out of the net that they have secretly laid for me: for you are my strength.

  • Job 16:13
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    13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

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    21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pierced in my mind.

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