Jeremiah 37:21 Cross References - Thomson

²¹ Thereupon the king gave orders and they committed him to the guard house and gave him a loaf of bread a day from the bake house until all the bread in the city was spent. So Jeremias remained in the court of the prison.

⁵² and wasted thee in thy cities; until they have demolished thy high, and strong walls, in which thou hast placed thy confidence, throughout thy whole land. And when he shall afflict thee in thy cities which he hath given thee; ⁵³ in thy siege, and in the affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee, thou shalt eat the offspring of thy body; the flesh of thy sons, and thy daughters, whom he gave thee. ⁵⁴ The tender, and very delicate man who is with thee, will look with an evil eye on his brother, and on the wife in his bosom, and the remaining children which may be left him, ⁵⁵ so as not to give one of them any of the flesh of his sons, which he may be eating, because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in that affliction of thine with which thine enemies will afflict thee, in all thy cities. ⁵⁶ And the tender, and very delicate woman among you, whose foot never ventured to tread the ground because of her delicateness, and effeminacy will look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and on her son, and her daughter, ⁵⁷ even the female infant she bore, or the male child which she may have brought forth; for on the account of the want of all things, she will eat these secretly in thy siege, and in that affliction of thine with which thine enemy will afflict thee in thy cities.

⁴ and thou shalt have water from the brook to drink and I will command the ravens to feed thee there. ⁵ So Elias did according to the word of the Lord, and took up his abode by the brook Chorrath, fronting the Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens brought him bread in the morning and flesh in the evening, and he drank water from the brook.

³ On the ninth of that month when the famine prevailed in the city so that there was not bread for the people of the land,

²⁰ In famine he will deliver thee from death, and in battle save thee from the edge of the sword.

¹⁸ Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them who fear him; on them who confide in his mercy; ¹⁹ to deliver their souls from death; and to nourish them in a famine.

⁹ fear the Lord all ye his saints! for they who fear him have no want. ¹⁰ Rich men have become poor and hungry: But they who seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

³ Trust in the Lord and exercise kindness; dwell in the land and thou shalt be fed with the riches thereof.

¹⁹ In time of troubles they shall not be shamed, and in days of famine they shall be plentifully fed.

⁷ The beginning of a good way is to do things just and acceptable in the sight of God, rather than to offer sacrifices.

¹ The heart of a king is in the hand of God; like a canal of water, he turneth it whithersoever he pleaseth.

¹⁶ he shall dwell in a lofty cavern of a strong rock: bread shall be given him and his water shall not fail.

² When the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremias was confined in the court of the prison which is in the king's house,

⁸ Accordingly Anameel son of Salom my father's brother came to me in the court of the prison and said, Buy thee my field which is in the land of Benjamin, that at Anathoth, for the right of purchase is in thee as thou art the eldest. Upon this I knew that it was a word of the Lord,

⁹ Thou hast done wrong in ordering this man to be put to death out of the way of the famine, for there is no bread in the city.

¹³ they drew him up with the ropes out of the dungeon. And Jeremias abode in the court of the prison.

²⁸ So Jeremias remained in the court of the prison until Jerusalem was taken.

¹⁴ and they sent and took Jeremias out of the court of the prison and committed him to Godolias son of Achikam son of Saphan. And when they brought him out he sat down among the people. ¹⁵ Now there had come to Jeremias in the court of the prison a word of the Lord, saying,

⁶ On the ninth day of the; month there was a grievous famine in the city and there was no bread for the people of the land.

¹¹ Mine eyes failed with tears; my heart was astounded. My glory was poured on the ground for the distress of the daughter of my people when the infant and suckling expired in the streets of the city. ¹² To their mothers they said, "Where is corn and wine, "when they were fainting like wounded men in the streets of the city; when they were pouring out their souls in their mothers' bosom.

¹⁹ Arise, chant praise in the night at setting thy watch. Pour out thy heart like water before the Lord; lift up thy hands to him for the life of thine infants, who are perishing with hunger at the head of every street. ²⁰ Look, O Lord, and see. For whom hast thou caused such a search to be made? Shall women eat the fruit of their womb! The cook hath made search! Shall infants at the breast be butchered? Wilt thou slay in the sanctuary of the Lord, priest and prophet?

⁴ The tongue of a sucking babe cleaved to the roof of its mouth for thirst: infants asked for bread, there is none who breaketh it for them. ⁵ They who had fed upon dainties perished in the highways; they who had been nursed in scarlet were covered with dung.

⁹ The victims of the sword are more beautiful than those slain by famine. These stalked about pierced through for want of the fruits of the field. ¹⁰ The hands of tender hearted women boiled their own children; these were food for them in the extreme distress of the daughter of my people.

¹⁰ Our skin is black as an oven. They are shrivelled up by storms of famine.

³³ But seek first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness required by him, and all those things will be superadded to you.

⁵ So Peter was kept in prison; and there was earnest prayer to God made for him by the congregation.

²⁷ After two years however Felix was succeeded by Portius Festus, and being desirous to ingratiate himself with the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

¹⁶ And when we arrived at Rome the centurion delivered the prisoners to the prefect. But Paul was permitted to be at a private lodging, with the soldier who guarded him.

³⁰ And Paul continued two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came to him,

¹ I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the call with which you have been called,

²⁰ for which I am performing the office of an ambassador in a chain, that in this situation I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.

⁸ Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me who am a prisoner on his account; but share with me in affliction for the glad tidings, according to the power of God,

⁹ for which I suffer even to bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.