Devine Scripture

Jeremiah 10:22

Jeremiah chapter 10 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

Context

v.21For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

v.22This passage

v.23O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 4:6

    Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

  • Jeremiah 6:22

    Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, a people cometh from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

  • Malachi 1:3

    but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

  • Jeremiah 6:1

    Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.

  • Habakkuk 1:6

    For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.

  • Jeremiah 9:11

    And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.