Jeremiah 46:16

World English Bible (2000)

He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:36-37 : 36 "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues. 37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.
  • Jer 51:9 : 9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
  • Jer 46:6 : 6 Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
  • Jer 46:21 : 21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.
  • Jer 50:16 : 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.

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  • Jer 46:15
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    15Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand, because Yahweh did drive them.

  • Lev 26:36-37
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    76%

    36"'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.

    37They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

  • Jer 46:12
    74%

    12The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

  • Jer 50:16-17
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    73%

    16Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.

    17Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

  • Ps 20:8
    73%

    8They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.

  • Isa 13:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

    15Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

  • Isa 21:15
    72%

    15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

  • Jer 46:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.

    6Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

  • Ezek 32:20
    72%

    20They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.

  • Ezek 16:40
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    40They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • Ps 18:38
    72%

    38I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

  • Jer 51:49
    72%

    49As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.

  • 1 Chr 16:20
    72%

    20They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

  • Jer 6:21
    72%

    21Therefore thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish."

  • Jer 15:2
    71%

    2It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

  • Isa 8:15
    71%

    15Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured."

  • Lev 26:7
    71%

    7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • Nah 1:12
    71%

    12Thus says Yahweh: "Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

  • Joel 2:8
    71%

    8Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, and they burst through the defenses, and don't break ranks.

  • Jer 18:21
    71%

    21Therefore 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.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    71%

    9For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • Jer 5:16
    71%

    16Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

  • Isa 46:2
    71%

    2They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

  • 2 Sam 1:19
    71%

    19"Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

  • Mic 2:8
    71%

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  • Jer 51:4
    70%

    4They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

  • Judg 2:15
    70%

    15Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very distressed.

  • Jer 50:33
    70%

    33Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.

  • 2 Sam 22:39
    70%

    39I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can't arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.

  • Jer 8:4
    70%

    4Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?

  • Jer 42:16-17
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    70%

    16then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow close behind you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.

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  • 2 Chr 13:16
    70%

    16The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

  • Jer 16:19
    70%

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    70%

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    70%

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  • 2 Chr 15:6
    70%

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    70%

    25Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

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