Jeremiah 6:6

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Isaiah 37:33

“Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor build a siege ramp against it.

Jeremiah 20:8

For each time I speak, I cry out; I cry out, “Violence and devastation,” because to me the word of the Lord has resulted in reproach and derision daily.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and your heart are intent only on your covetousness and on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and violence.

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 32:31

Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My fury from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that I should remove it from before My face,

Jeremiah 33:4

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:

Jeremiah 39:1

In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it.

Jeremiah 5:29

Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord. Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 5:9

Shall I not punish for these things? says the Lord, and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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.

Ezekiel 5:5

“Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set it in the midst of the nations, with countries that are all around her.

Daniel 11:15

Then the king of the North shall come and set up a siege mound and capture a fortified city. And the forces of the South shall not withstand him; neither shall his chosen best troops have strength to resist.

Zephaniah 3:1

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city.

Luke 19:43

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you, and press you in on every side.