Jeremiah 12:12

Catholic Public Domain Version

The devastators have arrived, over all the ways of the wilderness. For the sword of the Lord will devour, from one end of the earth even to its furthest limits. There is no peace for all that is flesh.

Cross References

Isaiah 34:6

The sword of the Lord has been filled with blood. It has been thickened by the blood of lambs and he-goats, by the innermost blood of rams. For the victim of the Lord is in Bozrah, and a great slaughter is in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace for the impious, says the Lord God.

Jeremiah 15:2

And if they say to you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord: Those who go to death, shall go to death. And those who go to the sword, shall go to the sword, and those go to famine, shall go to famine, and those who go to captivity, shall go to captivity.

Jeremiah 16:5

For thus says the Lord: "You shall not enter the house of feasting, and you shall not go to mourn or to console them. For I have taken away from this people, says the Lord, my peace, my mercy, and my pity.

Jeremiah 25:11

And this entire land will be in desolation and in stupor. And all these nations will serve the king of Babylon, for seventy years.

Jeremiah 3:2

Lift your eyes straight up, and see where you did not debase yourself. You were sitting in the roadways, waiting for them, like a robber in the wilderness. And you have polluted the land by your fornications and by your wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:21

A voice has been heard in the highways, the weeping and wailing of the sons of Israel. For they have made their own ways sinful; they have forgotten the Lord their God.

Jeremiah 30:5

For thus says the Lord: 'We have heard a voice of terror. There is dread, and there is no peace.'

Jeremiah 34:17

Because of this, thus says the Lord: "You have not heeded me, though you proclaimed liberty, each one to his brother and each one to his friend. Behold, I am proclaiming a liberty for you, says the Lord, to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine. And I will cause you to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says the Lord: "All the earth will be desolate, but I will not yet bring about its consummation.

Jeremiah 46:10

For this is the day of the Lord, the God of hosts, a day of vengeance, so that he may vindicate himself of his enemies. The sword will devour, and be satiated, and be inebriated with their blood. For there is a victim of the Lord, the God of hosts, in the land of the north, beside the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 47:6

O sharp sword of the Lord, how long will you be without rest? Enter your sheath; be refreshed and silenced.

Jeremiah 48:2

There is no longer any rejoicing in Moab over Heshbon. They have devised evil. 'Come and let us destroy it as a nation.' Then you will be utterly silenced, and the sword will pursue you.

Jeremiah 8:15

We expected peace, but there was nothing good. We expected a time of health, and behold, dread."

Lamentations 3:17

VAU. And my soul has been driven away from peace; I have forgotten what is good.

Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I lead in the sword upon that land, and if I say to the sword, 'Pass through the land,' and so I destroy from it both man and beast,

Ezekiel 21:28

And as for you, son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord God to the sons of Ammon, and to their disgrace, and you shall say: O sword, O sword, unsheathe yourself so as to slay; polish yourself so as to kill and to shine,

Ezekiel 21:4

But in as much as I have slain among you the just and the impious, for this reason my sword will go forth from its sheath against all flesh, from the south even to the north.

Ezekiel 21:8

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 21:9

"Son of man, prophesy, and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: Speak: The sword! The sword has been sharpened and polished!

Ezekiel 5:2

A third part you shall burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the completion of the days of the siege. And you shall take a third part, and you shall cut it with the knife all around. Yet truly, the other third, you shall scatter to the wind, for I will unsheathe the sword after them.

Leviticus 26:33

Then I will scatter you among the Gentiles, and I will unsheathe the sword after you. And your land will be deserted, and your cities will be demolished.

Amos 9:4

And if they go into captivity in the sight of their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. And I will set my eyes over them for harm and not for good."

Zephaniah 2:12

Even so, you Ethiopians, you will be executed by my sword.

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will inebriate my arrows with blood, and my sword will devour flesh: from the blood of the slain and from the captive, from the exposed head of the enemies.'

Revelation 6:4

And another horse went forth, which was red. And it was granted to him who was sitting upon it that he would take peace from the earth, and that they would kill one another. And a great sword was given to him.