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Jeremiah 21:14

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

and I will punish you as you deserve. I'll set your palace on fire, and everything around you will go up in smoke.

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Nebuchadnezzar's troops burnt down the temple and destroyed every important building in the city. Then they broke down the city wall.

“Now you will eat the fruit of what you have done, until you are stuffed full with your own schemes.

We are rewarded or punished for what we say and do.

The Lord will do what he has planned against Jerusalem and Mount Zion. Then he will punish the proud and boastful king of Assyria,

The mighty LORD All-Powerful will send a terrible disease to strike down your army, and you will burn with fever under your royal robes.

On that day the LORD will punish the powers in the heavens and the kings of the earth.

You let your officials insult me, the Lord. And here is what you have said about yourself, “I led my chariots to the highest heights of Lebanon's mountains. I went deep into its forest, cutting down the best cedar and cypress trees.

Once you were like an olive tree covered with fruit. But soon I will send a noisy mob to break off your branches and set you on fire.

But I will punish them. Their young men will die in battle, and their children will starve to death.

But I know your deeds and your thoughts, and I will make sure you get what you deserve.

But if you keep on carrying things through the city gates on the Sabbath and keep treating it as any other day, I will set fire to these gates and burn down the whole city, including the fortresses.

The LORD sent me to the palace of the king of Judah to speak to the king, his officials, and everyone else who was there. The LORD told me to say: I am the LORD, so pay attention! You have been allowing people to cheat, rob, and take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners who live here. Innocent people have become victims of violence, and some of them have even been killed. But now I command you to do what is right and see that justice is done. Rescue everyone who has suffered from injustice.

I'll send troops to tear it apart, and its beautiful cedar beams will be used for firewood.

With great wisdom you make plans, and with your great power you do all the mighty things you planned. Nothing we do is hidden from your eyes, and you reward or punish us as we deserve.

You are proud, but you will stumble and fall, and no one will help you up. I will set your villages on fire, and everything around you will go up in flames.

and he burnt down the LORD's temple, the king's palace, and every important building in the city, as well as all the houses.

Silver can be purified in a fiery furnace, but my people are too wicked to be made pure, and so I have rejected them.

Some day I will punish the nations of Egypt, Edom, Ammon, and Moab, and the tribes of the desert. The men of these nations are circumcised, but they don't worship me. And it's the same with you people of Judah. Your bodies are circumcised, but your hearts are unchanged.

The Lord was so furiously angry that he wiped out the whole army of Israel by not supporting them when the enemy attacked. He was like a raging fire that swallowed up the descendants of Jacob.

that I am about to punish them. I will pull out my sword and have it ready to kill everyone, whether good or evil.

Those nations will suffer disaster because of what they did.

Lebanon, open your gates! Let the fire come in to destroy your cedar trees.




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