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Jeremiah 37:9
Jeremiah 37:9 is verse 9 of Jeremiah chapter 37, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not!
King James Version
Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.
World English Bible
“Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely depart from us;” for they will not depart.
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Jeremiah 37:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt.
8 Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.
9 This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not!
10 Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”
11 When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Obadiah 1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
Matthew 24:4Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.
Matthew 24:5For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
Galatians 6:3If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
Ephesians 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
2 Thessalonians 2:3Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.
James 1:22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.