Jeremiah 16:19

Jeremiah confesses God as his strength, stronghold, and refuge, foreseeing nations coming from the ends of the earth to renounce the lies and worthless idols of their fathers. Even amid judgment, he glimpses the nations turning to the true God.

Cross-references · 40

• Isa 25:4For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
• Nah 1:7The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
• Jer 17:17Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
• Isa 2:2–3And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
• Jer 10:5They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
• Hab 2:18–19What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
• Mic 4:1–2But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
• Zech 8:20–23Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
• Jer 2:11Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
• Ps 86:9All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
• Ps 91:1–2He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
• Isa 44:10Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
• 1 Pet 1:18Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
• Ps 18:1–2I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
• Jer 10:14–15Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
• Ps 22:27–30All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
• Jer 3:16–17And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
• Hab 3:19The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
• Ps 62:2He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
• Zech 2:11And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
• Isa 49:6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
• Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Ezek 11:16Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
• Isa 60:1–3Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
• Ps 46:1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
• Isa 32:2And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
• Ps 27:5For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
• Isa 11:9–10They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
• Prov 18:10The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
• Ps 67:2–7That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
• Ps 72:8–12He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
• Ps 19:14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
• Ps 68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
• Ps 62:7In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
• Jer 3:23Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
• Ps 46:7The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
• Rev 7:9–11After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
• Ps 46:11The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
• Isa 62:2And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
• Ps 144:1–2Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

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