Cross references

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when He sets over you

close allies whom you yourself trained?

Will not pangs of anguish grip you,

as they do a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 13:21 BSB

Jeremiah 13:21 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 13:8 (5 votes) and Jeremiah 4:31 (4 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Genesis 3 to 1 Thessalonians 5.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 13:21 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

  2. For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

  3. What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

  4. And Hezekiah welcomed the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his entire armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them. Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.” …

  5. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

  6. All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’

  7. So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are rising up against me.”

  8. Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.

  9. We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

  10. O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”

Which verses point to Jeremiah 13:21?

The 10 strongest of 15.