Jeremiah 12:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Knowest

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The day

Jeremiah 11:19

Psalm 44:22

James 5:5

General references

Genesis 7:21

Bible References

Knowest

But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously,
Who tries the feelings and the heart,
Let me see Your vengeance on them,
For to You have I committed my cause.

“Remember now, O Lord, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Since I know, O my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness, I, in the integrity of my heart, have willingly offered all these things; so now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here, make their offerings willingly to You.

“But He knows the way I take;
When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

You have tried my heart;
You have visited me by night;
You have tested me and You find nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

A Psalm of David.

Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity,

And I have trusted in the Lord

without wavering.

Would not God find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
O Lord, You have searched me and known me.

He *said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus *said to him, “Tend My sheep.

in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

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Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame;
Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed.

Bring on them a day of disaster,

And crush them with twofold destruction!

Therefore, give their children over to famine
And deliver them up to the power of the sword;
And let their wives become childless and widowed.
Let their men also be smitten to death,
Their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Yet, O Lord of hosts, You who test the righteous,
Who see the mind and the heart;
Let me see Your vengeance on them;
For to You I have set forth my cause.

“Moab has been destroyed and men have gone up to his cities;
His choicest

young men have also gone down to the slaughter,”

Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Put all her young bulls to the sword;

Let them go down to the slaughter!
Woe be upon them, for their day has come,
The time of their punishment.

“They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
And pierced through in their streets.”

The day

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;
And I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
And let us cut him off from the land of the living,
That his name be remembered no more.”

But for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

General references

All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;