Deuteronomy 4:26

New American Bible - revised edition

I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall all quickly perish from the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You shall not live in it for any length of time but shall be utterly wiped out.

Cross References

Genesis 19:13

We are about to destroy this place, for the outcry reaching the Lord against those here is so great that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

1 Kings 9:7

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them and repudiate the house I have consecrated for my name. Israel shall become a proverb and a byword among all nations,

Isaiah 1:2

Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the Lord speaks: Sons have I raised and reared, but they have rebelled against me!

Isaiah 6:11

“How long, O Lord?” I asked. And he replied: Until the cities are desolate, without inhabitants, Houses, without people, and the land is a desolate waste.

Jeremiah 16:13

I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have known; there you can serve other gods day and night because I will not show you mercy. Return from Exile.

Jeremiah 2:12

Be horrified at this, heavens; shudder, be appalled—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 22:29

O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord—

Jeremiah 32:24

See, the siegeworks have arrived at this city to capture it; the city is handed over to the Chaldeans who are attacking it, with sword, starvation, and disease. What you threatened has happened—you can see it for yourself.

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear the evil of your deeds, the abominations you were doing; then your land became a waste, a horror, a curse, without even one inhabitant, as it is today.

Jeremiah 6:19

See, I bring evil upon this people, the fruit of their own schemes, Because they did not pay attention to my words, because they rejected my law.

Ezekiel 33:28

I will make the land a desolate waste, so that its proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will cross them.

Ezekiel 36:4

therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, plundered and mocked by the nations remaining around you:

Leviticus 18:28

otherwise the land will vomit you out also for having defiled it, just as it vomited out the nations before you.

Micah 1:2

Hear, O peoples, all of you, give heed, O earth, and all that is in it! Let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple!

Micah 6:2

Hear, O mountains, the Lord’s case, pay attention, O foundations of the earth! For the Lord has a case against his people; he enters into trial with Israel.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as captives to all the Gentiles; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. The Coming of the Son of Man.

Deuteronomy 11:17

For then the anger of the Lord will flare up against you and he will close up the heavens, so that no rain will fall, and the soil will not yield its crops, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you. Need for Fidelity.

Deuteronomy 28:20

The Lord will send on you a curse, panic, and frustration in everything you set your hand to, until you are speedily destroyed and perish for the evil you have done in forsaking me.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, with blight and mildew, that will pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:45

All these curses will come upon you, pursuing you and overwhelming you, until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord, your God, by keeping his commandments and statutes which he gave you.

Deuteronomy 28:61

Even any sickness or calamity not written in this book of the law, that too the Lord will bring upon you until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things are for us and for our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 31:28

Assemble all your tribal elders and your officials before me, that I may speak these words for them to hear and so may call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Deuteronomy 32:1

Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth!

Deuteronomy 7:4

For they would turn your sons from following me to serving other gods, and then the anger of the Lord would flare up against you and he would quickly destroy you.

Deuteronomy 8:19

But if you do forget the Lord, your God, and go after other gods, serving and bowing down to them, I bear witness to you this day that you will perish utterly.

Deuteronomy 8:20

Like the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so shall you too perish for not listening to the voice of the Lord, your God.

Joshua 23:16

If you transgress the covenant of the Lord, your God, which he enjoined on you, to go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the anger of the Lord will flare up against you and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you.”

Joshua 24:20

If you forsake the Lord and serve strange gods, he will then do evil to you and destroy you, after having done you good.”