Cross references

Jeremiah 14:16

And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.

Jeremiah 14:16 BSB

Jeremiah 14:16 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 79:2–3 (4 votes) and Proverbs 1:31 (4 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from 2 Samuel 21 to Revelation 16.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 14:16 point to?

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

  1. They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

  2. So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

  3. The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.

  4. If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’ I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

  5. And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil. …

  6. “They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”

  7. Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

  8. For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

  9. Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way? Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates? …

  10. “Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

  11. 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?

Which verses point to Jeremiah 14:16?

The 10 strongest of 19.