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Jeremiah 8:3

And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

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ASV

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith Jehovah of hosts.

KJV

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.

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19 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְנִבְחַ֥רve.niv.Charand it will be chosenH977 →
מָ֙וֶת֙ma.vetdeathH4194 →
מֵֽחַיִּ֔יםme.chai.Yimmore than lifeH2416 →
לְכֹ֗לle.Kholby allH3605 →
הַשְּׁאֵרִית֙ha.she.'e.Ritthe remnantH7611 →
הַנִּשְׁאָרִ֔יםha.nish.'a.Rimwhich remainH7604 →
מִן־min-fromH4480 →
הַמִּשְׁפָּחָ֥הha.mish.pa.Chahthe familyH4940 →
הָֽרָעָ֖הha.ra.'Ah<the> evilH7451 →
הַזֹּ֑אתha.Zot<the> thisH2063 →
בְּכָל־be.kholin allH3605 →
הַמְּקֹמ֤וֹתha.me.ko.Motthe placesH4725 →
הַנִּשְׁאָרִים֙ha.nish.'a.Rimwhich remainH7604 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhereH834 →
הִדַּחְתִּ֣יםhi.dach.TimI have banished themH5080 →
שָׁ֔םShamthereH8033 →
נְאֻ֖םne.'Um[the] utterance ofH5002 →
יְהוָ֥הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
צְבָאֽוֹת׃ סtze.va.'otof hostsH6635 →

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Revelation 9:6In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.Micah 2:3Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.Jeremiah 29:14I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”Jeremiah 23:8Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”Jeremiah 23:3Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.Deuteronomy 30:4Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.Job 7:15–16so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.Amos 3:1Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:Daniel 9:7To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.Deuteronomy 30:1“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”Job 3:20–22Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,Jeremiah 29:28For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”Jeremiah 20:14–18Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.Jeremiah 40:12they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.Revelation 6:16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a 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 fathers.”Jeremiah 32:36–37Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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