Jeremiah 17:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:19-20 : 19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive.
  • Jer 14:17-21 : 17 You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound. 18 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge. 19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay! 20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you. 21 Do not abhor [us], for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don't break your covenant with us.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].
  • Ezek 3:14-19 : 14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me. 15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days. 16 It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand. 19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
  • Ezek 33:7-9 : 7 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 8 When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand. 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.
  • Amos 7:14-15 : 14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore trees; 15 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
  • Acts 20:20 : 20 how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
  • Acts 20:27 : 27 for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
  • Rom 9:1-3 : 1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
  • Jas 3:1 : 1 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
  • Jer 1:4-9 : 4 Now the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 5 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations. 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child. 7 But Yahweh said to me, Don't say, I am a child; for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak. 8 Don't be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you, says Yahweh. 9 Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth: 10 behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

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%

    17Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.

  • Jer 17:15
    78%

    15Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.

  • Ps 17:3-6
    4 verses
    76%

    3You 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.

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

    5My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.

    6I have called on you, for you will answer me, God: Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

  • Job 23:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11My foot has held fast to his steps. His way have I kept, and not turned aside.

    12I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

  • Ps 18:21-23
    3 verses
    76%

    21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

    22For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.

    23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

  • Ps 31:22
    75%

    22As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

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

    22For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

    23For all his ordinances were before me; As for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

  • Ps 23:1
    75%

    1> Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

  • Jer 12:3
    74%

    3But 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.

  • Job 23:17
    74%

    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • Jer 15:17
    73%

    17I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.

  • Ps 26:1
    73%

    1> Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

  • Ps 142:3
    73%

    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me.

  • Ps 40:9
    73%

    9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

  • Ps 18:36
    73%

    36You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

  • Ps 40:11
    73%

    11Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

  • Ps 71:17
    73%

    17God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

  • Ps 41:12
    73%

    12As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, And set me in your presence forever.

  • Jer 11:18-20
    3 verses
    73%

    18Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you shown me their doings.

    19But 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 the fruit of it, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

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

  • Jer 15:15
    73%

    15Yahweh, 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.

  • Ps 16:1
    73%

    1> Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.

  • 2 Sam 22:37
    72%

    37You have enlarged my steps under me; My feet have not slipped.

  • Ps 38:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, Or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

    17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

  • Ps 38:21
    72%

    21Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.

  • Ps 35:22
    72%

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

  • Ps 31:14
    72%

    14But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."

  • Job 16:17
    72%

    17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

  • Ps 27:8
    72%

    8When you said, "Seek my face," My heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

  • Ps 16:8
    72%

    8I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

  • Ps 22:19
    72%

    19But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

  • Ps 73:25
    72%

    25Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

  • Ps 141:3
    72%

    3Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

  • Ps 118:18
    72%

    18Yah has punished me severely, But he has not given me over to death.

  • Isa 37:28
    72%

    28But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.

  • Job 7:19
    72%

    19How long will you not look away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

  • Job 31:30
    72%

    30(Yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

  • Ps 17:1
    72%

    1> Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.

  • Ps 31:7
    72%

    7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, For you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

  • Ps 131:1
    72%

    1> Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; Nor do I concern myself with great matters, Or things too wonderful for me.

  • Ps 38:9
    72%

    9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.