Jeremiah 22:5

Modern English Version

But if you will not obey these words, I swear by Myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a desolation.

Cross References

Genesis 22:16

and said, “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

2 Chronicles 7:19

“But if the people turn aside and abandon My statutes and commandments that I have given to you, and you walk after and serve other gods and worship them,

2 Chronicles 7:21

And even though this house was majestic, it will lie desolate before all who pass by it, and they will say, ‘Why did the Lord do such a thing to this land and this house?’

2 Chronicles 7:22

Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them up from the land of Egypt, and they took hold of other gods and worshipped and served them; therefore He has brought on them all this disaster.’ ”

Psalm 95:11

Therefore I swore in My wrath, “They shall not enter My rest.”

Isaiah 1:20

but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.

Jeremiah 12:7

I have forsaken My house, I have abandoned My inheritance; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you will not listen to Me to sanctify the Sabbath day and not to bear a load, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in the gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and it will not be quenched.

Jeremiah 26:4

You will say to them: Thus says the Lord: If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you,

Jeremiah 39:8

The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 44:26

Yet hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who dwells in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says the Lord, that My name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, ‘As the Lord God lives.’

Amos 6:8

The Lord God hath sworn by Himself, an oracle of the Lord the God of Hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his palaces, so I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will be mounds of ruins, and the mountain of the house will become wooded heights.

Matthew 23:38

See, your house is left to you desolate.

Hebrews 3:18

And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who disobeyed?

Hebrews 6:13

For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could vow by no one greater, He vowed by Himself,

Hebrews 6:17

So God, wanting to show more abundantly the immutability of His counsel to the heirs of promise, confirmed it by an oath.