Jeremiah 1:10

Good News Translation

Today I give you authority over nations and kingdoms to uproot and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

A prophet named Elijah, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to King Ahab, “In the name of the Lord, the living God of Israel, whom I serve, I tell you that there will be no dew or rain for the next two or three years until I say so.”

1 Kings 19:17

Anyone who escapes being put to death by Hazael will be killed by Jehu, and anyone who escapes Jehu will be killed by Elisha.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

the time for killing and the time for healing, the time for tearing down and the time for building.

Jeremiah 1:5

“I chose you before I gave you life, and before you were born I selected you to be a prophet to the nations.”

Jeremiah 24:6

I will watch over them and bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not pull them up.

Jeremiah 25:13

I will punish Babylonia with all the disasters that I threatened to bring on the nations when I spoke through Jeremiah—all the disasters recorded in this book.

Jeremiah 31:28

And just as I took care to uproot, to pull down, to overthrow, to destroy, and to demolish them, so I will take care to plant them and to build them up.

Jeremiah 31:40

The entire valley, where the dead are buried and garbage is dumped, and all the fields above Kidron Brook as far as the Horse Gate to the east, will be sacred to me. The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.”

Jeremiah 36:2

“Get a scroll and write on it everything that I have told you about Israel and Judah and all the nations. Write everything that I have told you from the time I first spoke to you, when Josiah was king, up to the present.

Jeremiah 44:27

I will see to it that you will not prosper, but will be destroyed. All of you will die, either in war or of disease, until not one of you is left.

Jeremiah 45:4

“But I, the Lord, am tearing down what I have built and pulling up what I have planted. I will do this to the entire earth.

Ezekiel 21:19

“Mortal man,” he said, “mark out two roads by which the king of Babylonia can come with his sword. Both of them are to start in the same country. Put up a signpost where the roads fork.

Ezekiel 23:36

The Lord said to me, “Mortal man, are you ready to judge Oholah and Oholibah? Accuse them of the disgusting things they have done.

Ezekiel 32:18

“Mortal man,” he said, “mourn for all the many people of Egypt. Send them down with the other powerful nations to the world of the dead.

Ezekiel 36:36

Then the neighboring nations that have survived will know that I, the Lord, rebuild ruined cities and replant waste fields. I, the Lord, have promised that I would do this—and I will.”

Ezekiel 43:3

This vision was like the one I had seen when God came to destroy Jerusalem, and the one I saw by the Chebar River. Then I threw myself face downward on the ground.

Hosea 6:5

That is why I have sent my prophets to you with my message of judgment and destruction. What I want from you is plain and clear:

Amos 3:7

The Sovereign Lord never does anything without revealing his plan to his servants, the prophets.

Amos 9:11

The Lord says, “A day is coming when I will restore the kingdom of David, which is like a house fallen into ruins. I will repair its walls and restore it. I will rebuild it and make it as it was long ago.

Zechariah 1:6

Through my servants the prophets I gave your ancestors commands and warnings, but they disregarded them and suffered the consequences. Then they repented and acknowledged that I, the Lord Almighty, had punished them as they deserved and as I had determined to do.’”