Jeremiah 12:12

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The empty hills are covered with soldiers who have come to destroy everything. The Lord is using them to punish that land from one end to the other. No one is safe.

Cross References

Amos 9:4

If they are captured and taken away by their enemies, I will command the sword, and it will kill them there. Yes, I will watch over them, but I will watch for ways to give them troubles, not for ways to do good things.”

Jeremiah 47:6

“Sword of the Lord, you have not stopped. How long will you keep fighting? Go back into your scabbard! Stop! Be still!

Ezekiel 14:17

“Or I might send an enemy army to fight against that country. The soldiers would destroy that country—I would remove all the people and animals from that country.

Isaiah 34:6

The Lord decided there should be a time for killing in Bozrah and in Edom. So the sword of the Lord is covered with blood and fat. The blood is from the “goats.” The fat is from the kidneys of the “rams.”

Revelation 6:4

Then another horse came out, a red one. The rider on the horse was given power to take away peace from the earth so that people would kill each other. He was given a big sword.

Zephaniah 2:12

People of Ethiopia, this even means you! The Lord’s sword will kill your people.

Jeremiah 48:2

Moab will not be praised again. Men in Heshbon will plan Moab’s defeat. They will say, ‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’ Madmenah, you will also be silenced. The sword will chase you.

Jeremiah 34:17

“So this is what the Lord says: ‘You people have not obeyed me. You have not given freedom to your fellow Hebrews. So, because you have not given them freedom, I will give a special kind of freedom—freedom to die in war or by disease or by hunger! This message is from the Lord. When the other nations see what I have done to you, they will all be shocked.

Jeremiah 15:2

They might ask you, ‘Where will we go?’ Tell them this is what the Lord says: “‘I have chosen some people to die. They will die. I have chosen some to be killed with swords. They will be killed with swords. I have chosen some to die from hunger. They will die from hunger. I have chosen some to be taken away to a foreign country. They will be prisoners there.

Jeremiah 3:2

“Look up to the bare hilltops, Judah. Is there any place where you have not had sex with your lovers? You sat by the road waiting for lovers, like an Arab in the desert. You made the land ‘dirty’ with all the evil sins you did when you were unfaithful to me.

Isaiah 57:21

My God says, “There is no peace for evil people.”

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations. I will pull out my sword and destroy you. Your land will become empty, and your cities will be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 32:42

My enemies will be killed and taken as prisoners. My arrows will be covered with their blood. My sword will cut off the heads of their soldiers.’

Jeremiah 3:21

You can hear crying on the bare hills. The people of Israel are crying and praying for mercy. They became very evil. They forgot the Lord their God.

Jeremiah 4:27

This is what the Lord says: “The whole country will be ruined, but I will not completely destroy the land.

Jeremiah 16:5

So the Lord says, “Jeremiah, don’t go into a house where people are eating a funeral meal. Don’t go there to cry for the dead or to show your sorrow. Don’t do these things, because I have taken back my blessing. I will not be kind to the people of Judah. I will not feel sorry for them.” This message is from the Lord.

Jeremiah 25:11

That whole area will be an empty desert. All these people will be slaves of the king of Babylon for 70 years.

Jeremiah 30:5

This is what the Lord said: “We hear people crying from fear. There is fear, not peace.

Jeremiah 46:10

“But on that day, the Lord GOD All-Powerful will win. He will give his enemies the punishment they deserve. His sword will kill until it is finished, until it has satisfied its thirst for blood. Yes, the Lord GOD All-Powerful will kill them as a sacrifice in the land of the north by the Euphrates River.

Lamentations 3:17

I thought I would never have peace again. I forgot about good things.

Ezekiel 21:4

I will cut off both good people and evil people from you. I will pull my sword from its sheath and use it against all people from south to north.

Ezekiel 21:28

“Son of man, speak to the people for me. Say this, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says to the people of Ammon and their shameful god: “‘Look, a sword! The sword is out of its sheath. It has been polished. The sword is ready to kill. It was polished to flash like lightning!

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped to have peace, but nothing good has come. We hoped that he would forgive us, but only disaster has come.

Ezekiel 21:8

The word of the Lord came to me. He said,

Ezekiel 21:9

“Son of man, speak to the people for me. Say this, ‘This is what the Lord says: “‘Look, a sword, a sharp sword, and it has been polished.