Jeremiah 21:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² O house of David! Thus says the Lord: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed, or else my wrath will go forth like fire and burn, with no one to quench it, because of their evil doings.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² O house of David, thus says the Lord: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest My wrath go forth like fire and burn so that none can quench it–because of the evil of your doings.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² O house of David, thus saith Jehovah, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Common English Bible

¹² House of David! The LORD proclaims: Begin each morning by administering justice, rescue from their oppressor those who have been robbed, or else my anger will spread like a wildfire, with no one to put it out, because of your evil deeds.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² O house of David! Thus says the Lord: Judge with judgment from early morning, and rescue anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. Otherwise, my indignation may go forth like a fire, and may flare up, and there will be no one who can extinguish it, because of the evil of your intentions.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² O house of David, this saith the Lord: Judge ye judgement in the morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire and be kindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your ways.

Jeremiah 21:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 8:15

So David reigned over all Israel, and David administered justice and equity to all his people.

Job 29:17

I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made them drop their prey from their teeth.

Psalm 101:8

Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

Exodus 18:13

The next day Moses sat as judge for the people, while the people stood around him from morning until evening.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:31

The strong shall become like tinder and their work like a spark; they and their work shall burn together, with no one to quench them.

Isaiah 7:13

Then Isaiah said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary mortals that you weary my God also?

Isaiah 7:2

When the house of David heard that Aram had allied itself with Ephraim, the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

Jeremiah 17:4

By your own act you shall lose the heritage that I gave you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.

Jeremiah 21:5

I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and mighty arm, in anger, in fury, and in great wrath.

Jeremiah 23:19

Look, the storm of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

Jeremiah 23:2

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:5

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

Jeremiah 36:7

It may be that their plea will come before the Lord and that all of them will turn from their evil ways, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”

Jeremiah 4:4

Circumcise yourselves to the Lord; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or else my wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear the sight of your evil doings, the abominations that you committed; therefore your land became a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is to this day.

Jeremiah 5:14

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: Because you have spoken this word, I am now making my words in your mouth a fire and this people wood, and the fire shall devour them.

Jeremiah 5:28

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Jeremiah 7:20

Therefore thus says the Lord God: My anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on humans and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.

Jeremiah 7:5

For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another,

Lamentations 4:11

The Lord gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger and kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations.

Ezekiel 22:31

Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; I have returned their conduct upon their heads, says the Lord God.

Leviticus 26:28

I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself sevenfold for your sins.

Nahum 1:6

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and by him the rocks are broken in pieces.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath; in the fire of his passion the whole earth shall be consumed, for a full, a terrible end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Zephaniah 3:5

The Lord within it is righteous; he does no wrong. Every morning he renders his judgment, each dawn without fail, but the unjust knows no shame.

Luke 1:69

He has raised up a mighty savior for us in the house of his child David,

Romans 13:4

for it is God’s agent for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for the authority does not bear the sword in vain! It is the agent of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled by my anger and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the earth and its increase and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.