Jeremiah 21:14

New American Bible - revised edition

I will punish you—oracle of the Lord— as your deeds deserve! I will kindle a fire in its forest that shall devour all its surroundings.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:19

They burnt the house of God, tore down the walls of Jerusalem, burnt down all its palaces, and destroyed all its precious objects.

Proverbs 1:31

Well, then, they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and with their own devices be glutted.

Proverbs 12:14

From the fruit of their mouths people have their fill of good, and the works of their hands come back upon them.

Isaiah 10:12

But when the Lord has brought to an end all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the utterance of the king of Assyria’s proud heart, and the boastfulness of his haughty eyes.

Isaiah 10:16

Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send leanness among his fat ones, And under his glory there will be a kindling like the kindling of fire.

Isaiah 24:21

On that day the Lord will punish the host of the heavens in the heavens, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

Isaiah 37:24

Through the mouths of your messengers you have insulted the Lord when you said: ‘With my many chariots I went up to the tops of the peaks, to the recesses of Lebanon, To cut down its lofty cedars, its choice cypresses; I reached the farthest shelter, the forest ranges.

Jeremiah 11:16

when you hear the great tumult? The Lord has named you “a spreading olive tree, a pleasure to behold”; Now he sets fire to it, its branches burn.

Jeremiah 11:22

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: I am going to punish them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and daughters shall die by famine.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, explore the mind and test the heart, Giving to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their deeds.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you do not obey me and keep holy the sabbath day, if you carry burdens and come through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath, I will set fire to its gates—a fire never to be extinguished—and it will consume the palaces of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 22:1

Thus says the Lord: Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and there deliver this word:

Jeremiah 22:7

Against you I will send destroyers, each with their tools: They shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

Jeremiah 32:19

great in counsel, mighty in deed, whose eyes are fixed on all the ways of mortals, giving to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their deeds:

Jeremiah 46:23

They cut down her forest—oracle of the Lord— impenetrable though it be; More numerous than locusts, they cannot be counted.

Jeremiah 50:32

Insolence stumbles and falls; there is no one to raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities to devour everything around him.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned the house of the Lord, the palace of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every large building he destroyed with fire.

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.

Jeremiah 6:29

The bellows are scorched, the lead is consumed by the fire; In vain has the refiner refined, the wicked are not drawn off.

Jeremiah 9:25

Egypt and Judah, Edom and the Ammonites, Moab, and those who live in the wilderness and shave their temples. For all the nations are uncircumcised, even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised at heart.

Lamentations 2:3

In blazing wrath, he cut down entirely the horn of Israel; He withdrew the support of his right hand when the enemy approached; He burned against Jacob like a blazing fire that consumes everything in its path.

Ezekiel 21:3

Say to the forest in the south: Hear the word of the Lord! Thus says the Lord God: See! I am kindling a fire in you that shall devour every green tree as well as every dry tree. The blazing flame shall not be quenched so that from south to north every face shall be scorched by it.

Micah 7:13

And the earth shall be a waste because of its inhabitants, as a result of their deeds.

Zechariah 11:1

Open your doors, Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars!