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Jeremiah 23

Jer. 23:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Wherefore their way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
g shall be unto them as slippery
chalaqlaqqah (Hebrew #2519)
properly, something very smooth; i.e. a treacherous spot; figuratively, blandishment
KJV usage: flattery, slippery.
Pronounce: khal-ak-lak-kaw'
Origin: by reduplication from 2505
ways in the darkness
'aphelah (Hebrew #653)
duskiness, figuratively, misfortune; concrete, concealment
KJV usage: dark, darkness, gloominess, X thick.
Pronounce: af-ay-law'
Origin: feminine of 651
: they shall be driven on
dachah (Hebrew #1760)
a primitive root; to push down
KJV usage: chase, drive away (on), overthrow, outcast, X sore, thrust, totter.
Pronounce: daw-khaw'
Origin: or dachach {Jer. 23:12) {daw-khakh'}
, and fall
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
therein: for I will bring
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
upon them, even the year
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
of their visitation
pquddah (Hebrew #6486)
visitation (in many senses, chiefly official)
KJV usage: account, (that have the) charge, custody, that which...laid up, numbers, office(-r), ordering, oversight, + prison, reckoning, visitation.
Pronounce: pek-ood-daw'
Origin: feminine passive participle of 6485
h, saith
n'um (Hebrew #5002)
an oracle
KJV usage: (hath) said, saith.
Pronounce: neh-oom'
Origin: from 5001
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Prov. 4:19• 19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. (Prov. 4:19)
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Ex. 32:34• 34Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. (Ex. 32:34)

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Cross References

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Jer. 13:16• 16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. (Jer. 13:16)
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Psa. 35:6• 6Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them. (Psa. 35:6)
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Psa. 73:18• 18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. (Psa. 73:18)
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Prov. 4:19• 19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. (Prov. 4:19)
in the.
Job 18:18• 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. (Job 18:18)
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Isa. 8:22• 22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. (Isa. 8:22)
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John 12:35• 35Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. (John 12:35)
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1 John 2:11• 11But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. (1 John 2:11)
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Jude 13• 13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. (Jude 13)
the year.
Jer. 11:23• 23And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation. (Jer. 11:23)
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Jer. 23:12• 12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord. (Jer. 23:12)
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Jer. 48:44• 44He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord. (Jer. 48:44)
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Jer. 50:27• 27Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. (Jer. 50:27)
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Ex. 32:34• 34Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. (Ex. 32:34)
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Mic. 7:4• 4The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. (Mic. 7:4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.