Jeremiah 8:3

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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.

Literal

And they will choose and death over life for all the remant remaining of this evil family, those remaining in all the places where I have driven them!” A declaration of YHWH of Hosts.

Latin

Et eligent magis mortem quam vitam, omnes qui residui fuerint de cognatione hac pessima, in universis locis quæ derelicta sunt, ad quæ ejeci eos, dicit Dominus exercituum.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Jeremiah 7:30–8:3

This message announced death for the people of Judah. It came true with the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC.

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Revelation 9:6
In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
Jeremiah 29:14
I 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 23:8
Instead 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 23:3
Then 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.
Job 7:15–16
…so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
Deuteronomy 30:4
Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.
Jonah 4:3
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Daniel 9:7
To 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,
Jeremiah 32:36–37
Now 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:
Jeremiah 20:14–18
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
Revelation 6:16
And 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.

People

LORD: Names or title used to refer to God

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (Old Testament) Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah (Person) Temple

Topics

Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Death: Desired Idolatry: Punishment of Banishment The Moon: Worshipping of Jews Punished For

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