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רַע (ra) means “bad: harmful” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

רַע Hebrew · H7451 661 tagged occurrences in 620 verses

Pronunciation guide: rah Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H7451A

רַע · ra · bad: harmful

: harmful adj 1) bad, evil 1a) bad, disagreeable, malignant 1b) bad, unpleasant, evil (giving pain, unhappiness, misery) 1c) evil, displeasing 1d) bad (of its kind-land, water, etc) 1e) bad (of value) 1f) worse than, worst (comparison) 1g) sad, unhappy 1h) evil (hurtful) 1i) bad, unkind (vicious in disposition) 1j) bad, evil, wicked (ethically) 1j1) in general, of persons, of thoughts 1j2) deeds, actions

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TBESH · H7451B

רַע · ra · bad: evil

1) evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity 1a) evil, distress, adversity 1b) evil, injury, wrong 1c) evil (ethical)

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TBESH · H7451C

רָעָה · ra.ah · distress: harm

: harm 1) evil, misery, distress, injury 1a) evil, misery, distress 1b) evil, injury, wrong 1c) evil (ethical)

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TBESH · H7451H

רַע · ra · bad: evil

: evil adj 1) bad, evil 1a) bad, disagreeable, malignant 1b) bad, unpleasant, evil (giving pain, unhappiness, misery) 1c) evil, displeasing 1d) bad (of its kind-land, water, etc) 1e) bad (of value) 1f) worse than, worst (comparison) 1g) sad, unhappy 1h) evil (hurtful) 1i) bad, unkind (vicious in disposition) 1j) bad, evil, wicked (ethically) 1j1) in general, of persons, of thoughts 1j2) deeds, actions

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TBESH · H7451I

רָעָה · ra.ah · distress: evil

: harm 1) evil, misery, distress, injury 1a) evil, misery, distress 1b) evil, injury, wrong 1c) evil (ethical)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H7489 (רָעַע); bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

KJV glosses: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, [phrase] displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), [phrase] exceedingly, [idiom] great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), [phrase] mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, [phrase] not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).

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How translators render H7451

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
evil	142
disaster	42
the evil	26
harm	19
from evil	15
bad	14
the disaster	14
calamity	9
of evil	9
the calamity	9
and evil	7
of disaster	7
of distress	7
of trouble	7
wicked	7
the wickedness	6
a bad	5
the wicked	5
wrong	5
an evil	4
from your evil	4
of his evil	4
their wickedness	4
trouble	4
with evil	4
a disaster	3
adversity	3
for harm	3
into trouble	3
of the wicked	3
to evil	3
to harm you	3
wickedness	3
your wickedness	3
a miserable	2
affliction	2
and	2
danger	2
disasters	2
evils	2
for evil	2
from harm	2
from his wicked	2
from their evil	2
from your wicked	2
greater evil	2
is evil	2
its wickedness	2
my harm	2
of adversity	2
of calamity	2
of evil men	2
sad	2
sending disaster	2
serious	2
sickly	2
that the wicked	2
the adversity	2
the trouble	2
their evil	2
to bring disaster	2
to harm me	2
troubles	2
ugly	2
wild	2
with malice	2
worthless	2
your evil	2
your wicked	2
a heavy	1
a stingy	1
a terrible fate	1
a vicious	1
a wicked	1
about their hardship	1
according to his evil	1
all the evil	1
an evil man	1
and a wicked	1
and an offense	1
and devastating	1
and disaster	1
and evildoer	1
and hard	1
and his affliction	1
and misfortunes	1
and terrible	1
and what is not	1
and wickedness	1
and wild	1
another evil	1
any harm	1
are bad	1
are destructive	1
are evil	1
are intent on evil	1
are the afflictions	1
as well as the crimes	1
at evil	1
because of our evil	1
because of the evil	1
because of the wickedness	1
both adversity	1
bring evil	1
but disaster	1
but evil	1
but like the bad	1
but the bad figs	1
but to your own harm	1
by his own sin	1
by unjust	1
calamity is	1
cruelty	1
demise	1
devise	1
dire	1
disapproved of	1
disaster is upon them	1
disaster was	1
discomfort	1
fault	1
for a crime	1
for bad	1
for disaster	1
for its evil	1
for the wicked	1
for their wickedness	1
from his evil	1
from its evil	1
from the deadly	1
from the evil	1
from their wicked	1
from their wickedness	1
great harm	1
had evil	1
harmful	1
has kept the calamity	1
he has evil	1
her evil	1
his evil	1
his wickedness	1
i send wild	1
in a bad	1
in a cruel	1
in a failed	1
in an evil	1
in bad times	1
in his wickedness	1
in my distress	1
in severe	1
in sorrow	1
in their anguish	1
in wrongdoing	1
in your wickedness	1
is an evil	1
is bad	1
is harsh	1
is your punishment	1
it	1
it is unpleasing	1
may calamity	1
may no evil	1
misery	1
my evil	1
my own wretchedness	1
of a stingy man	1
of animosity	1
of dangerous	1
of destroying	1
of evildoers	1
of harm	1
of my trouble	1
of the terrible	1
of their evil	1
of their own evil	1
of this evil	1
of troubles	1
on evil	1
on wickedness	1
or bad	1
or low	1
pain	1
poor	1
ruin	1
she is displeasing	1
so downcast	1
such calamity	1
such disaster	1
that a vicious	1
that were sickly	1
the bad	1
the calamity he has threatened	1
the crimes	1
the deeds of the wicked	1
the evil man	1
the evil that	1
the evils	1
the misery	1
the most immoral of women	1
the most wicked	1
the wickedness that	1
the worst	1
their affliction	1
their own evil	1
their ruin	1
their wicked	1
they were in trouble	1
this evil	1
those who do evil	1
to any evil	1
to bring calamity	1
to harm him	1
to harm them	1
to his own detriment	1
to ruin	1
to the evil	1
to the harm	1
to their evil	1
to your own harm	1
tragedy	1
unpleasant	1
was as ugly	1
was grievous	1
was wicked	1
were wicked	1
what is evil	1
what was evil	1
while malice	1
wicked man	1
wicked thing	1
will surely suffer	1
with evil intent	1
with painful	1
with terrible	1
with the deadly	1
with their evil	1
with trouble	1
wretched	1
you are wicked	1
you have come to ruin	1
you wrong	1
your great	1
your other wickedness	1
your own evil	1
your ruin	1
your troubles	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
evil	167
the evil	25
an evil	19
from evil	14
and evil	11
of evil	11
all the evil	8
from his evil	7
my hurt	6
of the wicked	6
this evil	6
wickedness	6
and the evil	5
for evil	5
him of the evil	5
mischief	5
not evil	5
of the evil	5
or bad	5
and the wickedness	4
evils	4
hurt	4
into mischief	4
me evil	4
no evil	4
the wickedness	4
to evil	4
all their wickedness	3
all this evil	3
and sore	3
ill	3
in an evil	3
naught	3
of their evil	3
of this evil	3
of trouble	3
that evil	3
the wicked	3
wicked	3
affliction	2
against you for evil	2
and bad	2
and not evil	2
bad	2
concerning me but evil	2
for the wickedness	2
from their evil	2
grievous	2
his wickedness	2
in his wickedness	2
me of the evil	2
mischiefs	2
of adversity	2
of his evil	2
of their trouble	2
sad	2
thee evil	2
their wickedness	2
there shall no evil	2
thy wickedness	2
wickedly	2
ye from your evil	2
a sore	1
a wicked	1
according to his wickedness	1
against all mine evil	1
against an evil	1
against evil	1
against it for their wickedness	1
against me for evil	1
all evil	1
all the wicked	1
all the wickedness	1
all their evil	1
all this wickedness	1
all thy wickedness	1
and a wicked	1
and all the evil	1
and an evil	1
and as the evil	1
and for all whose wickedness	1
and his affliction	1
and ill favoured	1
and it shall come to pass when the evil	1
and not of evil	1
and of evil	1
and the ill	1
and the ill favoured	1
and the noisome	1
and there was no harm	1
and will cause the evil	1
and with thy wickedness	1
and your own wickedness	1
any evil	1
any evilfavouredness	1
any ill	1
are not these evils	1
at mine hurt	1
away evil	1
because it went evil	1
because of all the evil	1
because of trouble	1
before thy wickedness	1
behold evil	1
behold this evil	1
beside the mischief	1
but evil	1
but if wickedness	1
but mischief	1
but the hurt	1
by evil	1
concerning the evil	1
even for all the evil	1
evil things	1
exceedingly	1
for a bad	1
for all the evil	1
for all the evils	1
for all thy wickedness	1
for all your evils	1
for an evil	1
for mischief	1
for the evils	1
for the wicked	1
for their wickedness	1
for wickedness	1
forward the affliction	1
from every evil	1
from his wickedness	1
from the evil	1
from the hurtful	1
from thee when thou doest evil	1
from their wicked	1
from their wickedness	1
from wickedness	1
have taken evil	1
her wickedness	1
him from his grief	1
him no harm	1
him over all the evil	1
him unto evil	1
his harm	1
i cause noisome	1
if she please	1
ill favoured	1
in adversity	1
in all evil	1
in evil	1
in the evil	1
in their calamities	1
in their own wickedness	1
in thy mischief	1
in thy wickedness	1
is evil	1
it displeased	1
lest some evil	1
let all their wickedness	1
me from all evil	1
me mischief	1
me wrong	1
mischievous	1
more evil	1
my wretchedness	1
myself when evil	1
naughty	1
neither evil	1
neither shall evil	1
none of the evil	1
nor bad	1
nor evil	1
not	1
not from his evil	1
not he neither shall evil	1
not in an evil	1
not that evil	1
not thy wickedness	1
not what evil	1
of all the evil	1
of all this evil	1
of an evil	1
of evil men	1
of my trouble	1
of sore	1
of their wickedness	1
of thy trouble	1
of troubles	1
of your evil	1
of your great	1
oh let the wickedness	1
on mischief	1
on their affliction	1
or a bad	1
or what evil	1
out evil things	1
over another to his own hurt	1
over thee for upon whom hath not thy wickedness	1
over them for evil	1
sadly	1
sake not according to your wicked	1
shall evil	1
shall smart	1
shall there be evil	1
some evil	1
sore	1
such evil	1
such wickedness	1
that his wicked	1
that the evil	1
that the wicked	1
that the wickedness	1
that there was evil	1
that they may do evil	1
that thou displease	1
that wicked	1
that your wickedness	1
the afflictions	1
the distress	1
the mischief	1
the wicked ones	1
the worst	1
thee from all evil	1
thee from every wicked	1
thee from the evil	1
thee no harm	1
thee of the evil	1
their evil	1
their hurt	1
them a displeasure	1
them exceedingly	1
them from their evil	1
then evil	1
therefore shall evil	1
therefore the misery	1
therefore this evil	1
therefore thou hast caused all this evil	1
thereof to their hurt	1
these evil	1
they from their wicked	1
thine own wickedness	1
this sore	1
this wicked	1
this wickedness	1
thou thyself in mischief	1
though wickedness	1
thy hurt	1
to an heavy	1
to do mischief	1
to mischief	1
to the evil	1
to your hurt	1
to your own hurt	1
unto all this evil	1
unto him behold now an evil	1
unto me but evil	1
unto me for harm	1
unto me for their trouble	1
unto thee bad	1
unto thee evil	1
unto thee than all the evil	1
unto them what evil	1
upon the evil	1
upon them all this evil	1
upon them for evil	1
upon them the evil	1
upon us for our evil	1
upon you all evil	1
us all the evil	1
us in unto this evil	1
us no hurt	1
us none evil	1
us we pray thee for whose cause this evil	1
vex	1
was against them for evil	1
was evil	1
was wicked	1
what wickedness	1
while the evil	1
with a sore	1
with evil	1
with mischief	1
with sore	1
with sorrow	1
with their wickedness	1
worse	1
ye now from your evil	1
you and evil	1
you hurt	1
you out of all your adversities	1
your evil	1
your own evil	1

Verses containing H7451

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Jeremiah 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
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Jeremiah 3:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
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Jeremiah 3:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
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Jeremiah 4:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.
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Jeremiah 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
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Jeremiah 4:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
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Jeremiah 5:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
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Jeremiah 5:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
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Jeremiah 6:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.
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Jeremiah 6:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
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Jeremiah 6:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
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Jeremiah 6:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.
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Jeremiah 7:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
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Jeremiah 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
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Jeremiah 7:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
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Jeremiah 7:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
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Jeremiah 8:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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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Jeremiah 8:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
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Jeremiah 9:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 11:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
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Jeremiah 11:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
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Jeremiah 11:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.
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Jeremiah 11:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
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Jeremiah 11:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.
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Jeremiah 11:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”
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Jeremiah 11:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”
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Jeremiah 12:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
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Jeremiah 12:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
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Jeremiah 13:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
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Jeremiah 14:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
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Jeremiah 15:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.
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Jeremiah 15:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”
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Jeremiah 16:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
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Jeremiah 16:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
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Jeremiah 17:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.
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Jeremiah 17:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.
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Jeremiah 18:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
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Jeremiah 18:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
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Jeremiah 18:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
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Jeremiah 18:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
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Jeremiah 18:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
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Jeremiah 19:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,
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Jeremiah 19:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
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Jeremiah 21:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’
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Jeremiah 22:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
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Jeremiah 23:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.
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Jeremiah 23:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 23:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 23:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”
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Jeremiah 23:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
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