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 you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
• Nah 1:7Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
• Jer 17:17Don’t be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
• Isa 2:2–3It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
• Jer 10:5They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak: they must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”
• Hab 2:18–19“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
• Mic 4:1–2But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.
• Zech 8:20–23Yahweh of Armies says: “Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;
• Jer 2:11Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
• Ps 86:9All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.
• Ps 91:1–2He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
• Isa 44:10Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
• 1 Pet 1:18knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
• Ps 18:1–2For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
• Jer 10:14–15Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
• Ps 22:27–30All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
• Jer 3:16–17It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days,” says Yahweh, “they will no longer say, ‘the ark of Yahweh’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made.
• Hab 3:19Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
• Ps 62:2He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress — I will never be greatly shaken.
• Zech 2:11Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
• Isa 49:6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
• Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Ezek 11:16“Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.”’
• Isa 60:1–3“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
• Ps 46:1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
• Isa 32:2A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
• Ps 27:5For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
• Isa 11:9–10They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
• Prov 18:10Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
• Ps 67:2–7That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,
• Ps 72:8–12He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
• Ps 19:14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
• Ps 68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
• Ps 62:7With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
• Jer 3:23Truly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.
• Ps 46:7Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
• Rev 7:9–11After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
• Ps 46:11Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
• Isa 62:2The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you will be called by a new name, which Yahweh‘s mouth will name.
• Ps 144:1–2By David. Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

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