Jeremiah 50:11

Jeremiah chapter 50 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;

Context

v.10And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied, saith Jehovah.

v.11This passage

v.12your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Cross references

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

  • 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 5:8

    they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

  • Psalms 22:12

    Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

  • Ezekiel 25:15

    Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity;

  • Obadiah 1:12

    But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress.

  • Jeremiah 51:34

    Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.