Jeremiah 25:9

Modern English Version

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:2

The Lord sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord that He spoke by His servants the prophets.

2 Chronicles 29:8

Therefore the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem for a terror, horror, and scorn as you all can see with your own eyes.

2 Chronicles 36:21

to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

Proverbs 21:1

As rivulets of water is the heart of a king in the hand of the Lord; wherever He pleases is where He directs it.

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger and the staff in whose hand is My indignation.

Isaiah 13:3

I have commanded My sanctified ones, I have also called My mighty ones for My anger, even those who rejoice in My exaltation.

Isaiah 39:7

And some of your sons who descend from you, whom you shall father, shall be taken away. And they shall become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Isaiah 44:28

it is I who says of Cyrus, “He is My shepherd, and shall perform all My desire”; and he declares to Jerusalem, “You shall be built,” and to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.”

Jeremiah 1:14

Then the Lord said to me: Out of the north calamity will break forth on all the inhabitants of the land.

Jeremiah 1:15

For behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord. And they will come and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 10:22

Behold, the sound of the report has come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate and a den of jackals.

Jeremiah 12:14

Thus says the Lord: Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit, behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

Jeremiah 18:16

to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes by shall be astonished and shake his head.

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions roared at him and roared loudly, and they made his land a waste; his cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 20:4

For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. And they will fall by the sword of their enemies while your eyes will see it. Thus I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive into Babylon and will slay them with the sword.

Jeremiah 24:9

And I will make them a horror and an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places wherever I shall drive them.

Jeremiah 25:8

Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: Because you have not obeyed My words,

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and an astonishment, a hissing and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

Jeremiah 35:11

But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem before the army of the Chaldeans and before the army of the Arameans.’ So we have dwelt in Jerusalem.”

Jeremiah 36:2

Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

Jeremiah 36:29

You shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah: Thus says the Lord: You have burned this book, saying, Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause man and beast to cease from here?

Jeremiah 4:7

The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way. He has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate. And your cities shall be laid waste without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 40:2

The captain of the guard had taken Jeremiah, and said to him: “The Lord your God has pronounced this disaster upon this place.

Jeremiah 43:10

and say to them, Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

Jeremiah 46:20

Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes, it comes out of the north.

Jeremiah 49:19

Behold, he will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against the rich pastureland; but I will suddenly make him run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like Me? And who will summon Me into court? Who is the shepherd who can stand against Me?

Jeremiah 6:1

O sons of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee from the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccherem; for disaster appears out of the north, and great destruction.

Jeremiah 8:16

The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan; the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones. For they have come and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city, and those who dwell in it.

Ezekiel 12:20

The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:40

They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

Ezekiel 21:11

He has given it to be polished, that it may be handled; the sword is sharpened, and it is polished to give it into the hand of the slayer.

Ezekiel 26:7

For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a great army.

Ezekiel 36:5

therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have seized My land into their possession with the joy of all their hearts and with a spiteful soul, to cast it out for a prey.

Daniel 5:18

“O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty and glory and honor.

Habakkuk 1:12

Are You not from everlasting, O  Lord my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O  Lord, You have appointed them for judgment; and You, O rock, have established them for correction.

Habakkuk 1:17

Shall they continue to empty their net, and continually kill the nations while not sparing anyone?

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become a horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule among all nations where the Lord shall lead you.