Jeremiah 8:3 Cross References

Jeremiah 8:3

3: And the people of this evil nation who survive will wish to die rather than live where I will send them. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken!

In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee away!

I will be found by you," says the LORD. "I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and bring you home again to your own land."

Instead, they will say, `As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the people of Israel back to their own land from the land of the north and from all the countries to which he had exiled them.' Then they will live in their own land."

But I will gather together the remnant of my flock from wherever I have driven them. I will bring them back into their own fold, and they will be fruitful and increase in number.

I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this.
I hate my life. I do not want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for these few remaining days.

"Suppose all these things happen to you--the blessings and the curses I have listed--and you meditate on them as you are living among the nations to which the LORD your God has exiled you.

"Lord, you are in the right; but our faces are covered with shame, just as you see us now. This is true of us all, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.

Though you are at the ends of the earth, the LORD your God will go and find you and bring you back again.

Just kill me now, LORD! I'd rather be dead than alive because nothing I predicted is going to happen."

they began to return to Judah from the places to which they had fled. They stopped at Mizpah to discuss their plans with Gedaliah and then went out into the Judean countryside to gather a great harvest of grapes and other crops.

"Oh, why should light be given to the weary, and life to those in misery?
They long for death, and it won't come. They search for death more eagerly than for hidden treasure.
It is a blessed relief when they finally die, when they find the grave.

Jeremiah sent a letter here to Babylon, predicting that our captivity will be a long one. He said we should build homes and plan to stay for many years. He said we should plant fruit trees, because we will be here to eat the fruit for many years to come.'"

Then he went on alone into the desert, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, LORD," he said. "Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."

Yet I curse the day I was born! May the day of my birth not be blessed.
I curse the messenger who told my father, "Good news--you have a son!"
Let him be destroyed like the cities of old that the LORD overthrew without mercy. Terrify him all day long with battle shouts,
for he did not kill me at birth. Oh, that I had died in my mother's womb, that her body had been my grave!
Why was I ever born? My entire life has been filled with trouble, sorrow, and shame.

"Now I want to say something more about this city. You have been saying, `It will fall to the king of Babylon through war, famine, and disease.' But this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
I will surely bring my people back again from all the countries where I will scatter them in my fury. I will bring them back to this very city and let them live in peace and safety.

And they cried to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

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