Devine Scripture

Jeremiah 6:16

Jeremiah chapter 6 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.

Context

v.15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.

v.16This passage

v.17And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.

Cross references

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

  • Jeremiah 22:21

    I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

  • Jeremiah 2:25

    Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

  • Jeremiah 18:12

    But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart.

  • Romans 4:1

    What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, hath found according to the flesh?

  • Romans 4:12

    and the father of circumcision to them who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had in uncircumcision.

  • Colossians 2:6

    As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,