Jeremiah 34:17

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

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 15:4

And I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 21:7

After that—oracle of the Lord—I will hand over Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his ministers and the people in this city who survive pestilence, sword, and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to their enemies and those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword, without quarter, without mercy or compassion.

Jeremiah 29:17

thus says the Lord of hosts: I am sending against them sword, famine, and pestilence. I will make them like rotten figs, so spoiled that they cannot be eaten.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse, a desolation, a hissing, and a reproach to all the nations among which I have banished them,

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 32:25

Yet you told me, my Lord God: Purchase the field with silver and summon witnesses, when the city has already been handed over to the Chaldeans!

Jeremiah 32:36

Now, therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city, which you say is being handed over to the king of Babylon by means of the sword, starvation, and disease:

Jeremiah 34:8

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom:

Jeremiah 38:2

Thus says the Lord: Those who remain in this city shall die by means of the sword, starvation, and disease; but those who go out to the Chaldeans shall live. Their lives shall be spared them as spoils of war that they may live.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned grievously, therefore she has become a mockery; Those who honored her now demean her, for they saw her nakedness; She herself groans out loud, and turns away.

Daniel 6:24

This gave the king great joy. At his order Daniel was brought up from the den; he was found to be unharmed because he trusted in his God.

Matthew 7:2

For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.

Galatians 6:7

Make no mistake: God is not mocked, for a person will reap only what he sows,

Deuteronomy 19:19

you shall do to the false witness just as that false witness planned to do to the other. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will let you be beaten down before your enemies; though you advance against them from one direction, you will flee before them in seven, so that you will become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:64

The Lord will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods, of wood and stone, which you and your ancestors have not known.

James 2:13

For the judgment is merciless to one who has not shown mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment. Faith and Works.

Revelation 16:6

For they have shed the blood of the holy ones and the prophets, and you [have] given them blood to drink; it is what they deserve.”