Jeremiah 12:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Upon every height in the wilderness marauders have appeared. The Lord has a sword that consumes the land from end to end: no peace for any living thing.

Cross References

Amos 9:4

Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword to slay them. I will fix my gaze upon them for evil and not for good.

Jeremiah 47:6

Ah! Sword of the Lord! When will you find rest? Return to your scabbard; stop, be still!

Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I bring the sword upon this land, commanding the sword to pass through the land cutting off from it human being and beast alike,

Isaiah 34:6

The Lord has a sword sated with blood, greasy with fat, With the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams’ kidneys; For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Revelation 6:4

Another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take peace away from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And he was given a huge sword.

Zephaniah 2:12

You too, O Cushites, shall be slain by the sword of the Lord.

Ezekiel 5:2

Set a third on fire within the city, when the days of your siege are completed; place another third around the city and strike it with the sword; the final third scatter to the wind and then unsheathe the sword after it.

Jeremiah 48:2

Moab’s glory is no more. In Heshbon they plot evil against her: “Come! We will put an end to her as a nation.” You, too, Madmen, shall be silenced; you the sword stalks!

Jeremiah 34:17

Therefore, thus says the Lord: You for your part did not obey me by proclaiming freedom for your families and neighbors. So I now proclaim freedom for you—oracle of the Lord—for the sword, starvation, and disease. I will make you an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Jeremiah 15:2

If they ask you, “Where should we go?” tell them, Thus says the Lord: Whoever is marked for death, to death; whoever is marked for the sword, to the sword; whoever is marked for famine, to famine; whoever is marked for captivity, to captivity.

Jeremiah 3:2

Raise your eyes to the heights, and look, where have men not lain with you? Along the roadways you waited for them like an Arabian in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution.

Isaiah 57:21

There is no peace for the wicked! says my God.

Leviticus 26:33

And you I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh— With the blood of the slain and the captured, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.

Jeremiah 3:21

A cry is heard on the heights! the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children, Because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord, their God.

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says the Lord: The whole earth shall be waste, but I will not wholly destroy it.

Jeremiah 16:5

Thus says the Lord: Do not go into a house of mourning; do not go there to lament or grieve for them. For I have withdrawn my peace from this people—oracle of the Lord—my love and my compassion.

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land shall be a ruin and a waste. Seventy years these nations shall serve the king of Babylon;

Jeremiah 30:5

Thus says the Lord: We hear a cry of fear: terror, not peace.

Jeremiah 46:10

Today belongs to the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, vengeance on his foes! The sword devours and is sated, drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in the land of the north, on the River Euphrates.

Lamentations 3:17

My life is deprived of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is;

Ezekiel 21:4

All flesh shall see that I, the Lord, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.

Ezekiel 21:28

In the eyes of those bound by oath this seems like a false omen; yet the lot taken in hand exposes the wickedness for which they, still bound by oath, will be taken in hand.

Jeremiah 8:15

We wait for peace to no avail; for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.

Ezekiel 21:8

Say to the land of Israel: Thus says the Lord: See! I am coming against you; I will draw my sword from its scabbard and cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

Ezekiel 21:9

Thus my sword shall come out from its scabbard against all flesh from south to north