Jeremiah 23:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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  • Ps 35:6 : 6 Their way is darkness and slipperiness, And a messenger of Jehovah their pursuer.
  • Jer 11:23 : 23 And they have no remnant, For I bring evil unto the men of Anathoth, The year of their inspection!'
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
  • Isa 8:22 : 22 And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!
  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;
  • Ps 73:18 : 18 Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
  • Exod 32:34 : 34 and now, go, lead the people whithersoever I have spoken to thee of; lo, My messenger goeth before thee, and in the day of my charging -- then I have charged upon them their sin.'
  • Job 18:18 : 18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
  • Jer 48:44 : 44 Whoso is fleeing because of the fear falleth into the snare, And whoso is coming up from the snare is captured by the gin, For I bring in unto her -- unto Moab -- The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Jer 50:27 : 27 Slay all her kine, they go down to slaughter, Wo `is' on them, for come hath their day, The time of their inspection.
  • Mic 7:4 : 4 Their best one `is' as a brier, The upright one -- than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen -- Thy visitation -- hath come. Now is their perplexity.
  • 1 John 2:11 : 11 and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

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