Jeremiah 12:3

World English Bible (2000)

But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try 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 "Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • Jer 17:18 : 18 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
  • Ps 26:1 : 1 Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
  • Ps 44:21-22 : 21 won't 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 regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
  • Ps 139:1-4 : 1 Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out 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, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
  • Ps 139:23 : 23 Search me, 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 tried me, I shall come forth like gold.
  • Jer 50:27 : 27 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
  • Jer 51:4 : 4 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
  • 1 John 3:20-21 : 20 because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
  • Jer 18:21-23 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.
  • Jer 20:12 : 12 But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
  • Jer 48:15 : 15 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
  • Ps 7:9 : 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.
  • Jer 11:19-20 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices 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 no more remembered. 20 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

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    12 But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

  • Ps 139:23
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    23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

  • Ps 139:1-5
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    1 Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

    2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

    3 You search out 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, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

    5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

  • Jer 12:1-2
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    1 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

    2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

  • Jer 11:18-20
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    18 Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you showed me their doings.

    19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices 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 no more remembered.

    20 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

  • Ps 17:3
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    3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

    23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

  • Ps 26:2
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    2 Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

  • Ps 142:3
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    3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

  • Jer 15:15
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    15 Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

  • Jer 12:4
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    4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • Jer 17:16
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    16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20 See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

    21 They 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 proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

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

  • Lam 3:11-12
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    11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

    12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

  • Ps 59:3
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    28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

  • Lam 3:59-60
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    59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

    60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

  • Zech 11:4
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    4 Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.

  • Ps 31:7
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    7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

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    5 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.

  • Jer 17:10
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    10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

  • Ps 35:22
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    22 You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be far from me.

  • Ps 22:16
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    16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
    72%

    27 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.

  • Ps 57:6
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    6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

  • Ps 44:21-22
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    21 won't 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 regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

  • Ps 118:12-13
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    72%

    12 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

    13 You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

  • Ps 7:9
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    9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

  • Jer 12:10
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    10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

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

  • Job 16:13
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    13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

  • Ps 73:21
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    21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

  • Jer 6:27
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    27 "I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.

  • Ps 56:6
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    6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

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    41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.