Jeremiah 10:24
Good News Translation
Correct your people, LORD, but do not be too hard on us or punish us when you are angry; that would be the end of us.

New Revised Standard Version
Correct me, O LORD, but in just measure; not in your anger, or you will bring me to nothing.

Contemporary English Version
Correct me, as I deserve, but not in your anger, or I will be dead.

New American Bible
Correct me, LORD, but with equity, not in anger, lest you diminish me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment: and not in thy fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment: and not in thy fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.

correct.

Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will utterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but I will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment, that thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent.

Psalm 6:1 Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave. [2] O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy wrath.

Psalm 38:1 A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath. [2] Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath.

Habakkuk 3:2 O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy.

lest.

Job 6:18 The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.

Isaiah 40:23 He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 41:11,12 Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee. . . .

bring me to nothing.

Context
Jeremiah's Prayer
23I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps. 24Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment: and not in thy fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.25Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his glory.…
Cross References
Psalm 6:1
Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave. [2] O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy wrath.

Psalm 38:1
A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath. [2] Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath.

Jeremiah 30:11
For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will utterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but I will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment, that thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent.

Jeremiah 46:28
And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: because I am with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast thee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in judgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent.

Jeremiah 10:23
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