Jeremiah 12:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Is my heritage unto me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 56:9 : 9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest.
  • Jer 7:33 : 33 And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.
  • Ezek 23:22-25 : 22 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side: 23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses. 24 And they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee with buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment unto them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments. 25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
  • 2 Kgs 24:2 : 2 And Jehovah sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
  • Ezek 39:17-20 : 17 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Speak unto the birds of every sort, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood. 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 And ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord Jehovah.
  • Rev 17:16 : 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire.
  • Rev 19:17-18 : 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come [and] be gathered together unto the great supper of God; 18 that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.
  • Jer 15:3 : 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
  • Ezek 16:36-37 : 36 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness uncovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers; and because of all the idols of thy abominations, and for the blood of thy children, that thou didst give unto them; 37 therefore behold, I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them against thee on every side, and will uncover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
  • Jer 2:15 : 15 The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

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  • Jer 12:7-8
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    86%

    7I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

    8My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she hath uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

  • Jer 12:10
    80%

    10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • Isa 56:9
    77%

    9All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest.

  • Ps 80:12-13
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    73%

    12Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?

    13The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.

  • Jer 12:14
    73%

    14Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

  • Jer 12:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

    4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • Ps 22:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

    13They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Ps 17:12
    72%

    12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Hos 2:12
    72%

    12And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

  • Joel 1:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

    7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

  • Hos 7:12
    72%

    12When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

  • 2 Kgs 21:14
    72%

    14And I will cast off the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

  • Jer 9:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

    10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.

  • Jer 30:16
    72%

    16Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that despoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

  • Isa 18:6
    71%

    6They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

  • Lam 3:52
    71%

    52They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

  • Lam 3:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • Lam 4:19
    71%

    19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Job 31:12
    71%

    12For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

  • Ezek 34:19
    71%

    19And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

  • Jer 7:33
    71%

    33And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

  • Jer 4:17
    71%

    17As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah.

  • Deut 28:26
    71%

    26And thy dead body shall be food unto all birds of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

  • Jer 17:3
    70%

    3O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, [and] thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.

  • Jer 50:11
    70%

    11Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;

  • Ps 79:1
    70%

    1[A Psalm of Asaph]. O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

  • Lam 1:10
    70%

    10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: For she hath seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thine assembly.

  • Ezek 31:13
    70%

    13Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches;

  • Job 19:12
    70%

    12His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

  • Jer 5:17
    70%

    17And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat; they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall beat down thy fortified cities, wherein thou trustest, with the sword.

  • Nah 2:12
    70%

    12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

  • Job 16:13
    70%

    13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

  • Lam 2:22
    70%

    22Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

  • Jer 13:20
    70%

    20Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

  • Joel 1:18
    70%

    18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

  • Ps 102:8
    70%

    8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.

  • Hos 13:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7Therefore am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way;

    8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.

  • Jer 12:12
    70%

    12Destroyers are come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Jehovah devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh hath peace.

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    70%

    11I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine.

  • Isa 34:15
    70%

    15There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.

  • Jer 19:7
    69%

    7And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

  • Prov 1:17
    69%

    17For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird: