Jeremiah 33:4

Modern English Version

For thus says the Lord God of Israel concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which were torn down to make a defense against the siege mounds and against the sword:

Cross References

Isaiah 22:10

You have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses you have broken down to fortify the wall.

Isaiah 32:13

for the land of my people in which thorns and briers shall come up, yes, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city;

Isaiah 32:14

because the palaces have been forsaken, the populated city is forsaken. The forts and towers shall be caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

Jeremiah 32:24

Behold, the siege ramps have come to the city to take it. And the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence, and what You have spoken has come to pass, and behold, you see it.

Jeremiah 6:6

For thus says the Lord of Hosts: Hew down trees and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished. She is full of oppression in her midst.

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has scorned His altar, He has disowned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord as on the day of a solemn feast.

Ezekiel 21:22

At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem: to appoint battering rams, to open the mouth for the slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle shout, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast up a ramp, and to build a siege tower.

Ezekiel 26:8

He shall slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword. And he shall set up a siege wall against you and cast up a mound against you and lift up the roof of shields against you.

Ezekiel 4:2

Then lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and build a mound against it; set camps and place battering rams against it all around.

Habakkuk 1:10

They scoff at kings, and they scorn rulers. They deride every stronghold, for they build up siege ramps to capture it.

Deuteronomy 20:20

However, you may destroy and cut down only the trees which you know are not fruit trees, so that you may build siege engines against the city that makes war with you until it falls.