Jeremiah 22:16
Jeremiah chapter 22 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
Context
v.15Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.
v.16This passage
v.17But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- John 17:6
I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.
- John 16:3
And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
- Jeremiah 9:16
I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.
- Psalms 109:31
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul.
- Jeremiah 5:28
They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
- Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.