Jeremiah 34:22

New American Bible - revised edition

I am giving the command—oracle of the Lord—to bring them back to this city. They shall attack and capture it, and burn it with fire; the cities of Judah I will turn into a waste, where no one dwells.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:11

Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants: “If my own son, who came forth from my loins, is seeking my life, how much more might this Benjaminite do so! Let him alone and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.

2 Kings 25:6

The king was therefore arrested and brought to Riblah to the king of Babylon, who pronounced sentence on him.

2 Kings 25:9

He burned the house of the Lord, the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem (every noble house); he destroyed them by fire.

2 Chronicles 36:17

Then he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in their own sanctuary, with compassion for neither young men nor young women, neither the old nor the infirm; all of them he delivered into his power.

Isaiah 13:3

I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have summoned my warriors, eager and bold to carry out my anger.

Isaiah 24:12

In the city nothing remains but desolation, gates battered into ruins.

Isaiah 37:26

Have you not heard? A long time ago I prepared it, from days of old I planned it, Now I have brought it about: You are here to reduce fortified cities to heaps of ruins,

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.

Isaiah 64:10

Our holy and glorious house in which our ancestors praised you Has been burned with fire; all that was dear to us is laid waste.

Jeremiah 2:15

Against him lions roar, they raise their voices. They have turned his land into a waste; his cities are charred ruins, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 32:29

The Chaldeans who are attacking this city shall go in and set the city on fire, burning it and the houses, on whose roofs incense was burned to Baal and libations were poured out to other gods in order to provoke me.

Jeremiah 33:10

Thus says the Lord: In this place, about which you say: “It is a waste without people or animals!” and in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem now deserted, without people, without inhabitant, without animal, there shall yet be heard

Jeremiah 34:2

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Go to Zedekiah, king of Judah, and tell him: Thus says the Lord: I am handing this city over to the king of Babylon; he will burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 38:23

All your wives and children shall be brought out to the Chaldeans, and you shall not escape their hands; you shall be handed over to the king of Babylon, and this city shall be destroyed by fire.”

Jeremiah 39:8

The Chaldeans set fire to the king’s house and the houses of the people and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 4:7

Up comes the lion from its lair, the destroyer of nations has set out, has left its place, To turn your land into a desolation, your cities into an uninhabited waste.

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 50:13

Because of the Lord’s wrath it shall be uninhabited, become an utter wasteland; Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and hiss at all its wounds.

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 52:7

the city walls were breached. All the soldiers fled and left the city by night through the gate between the two walls which was near the king’s garden. With the Chaldeans surrounding the city, they went in the direction of the Arabah.

Jeremiah 9:11

Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken? Let him declare it! Why is the land ravaged, scorched like a wilderness no one crosses?

Lamentations 1:1

How solitary sits the city, once filled with people. She who was great among the nations is now like a widow. Once a princess among the provinces, now a toiling slave.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you discourage the righteous with lies when I did not want them to be distressed, and encourage the wicked so they do not turn from their evil ways and save their lives,

Amos 3:6

Does the ram’s horn sound in a city without the people becoming frightened? Does disaster befall a city unless the Lord has caused it?

Micah 7:13

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

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord replied, “Lord of hosts, how long will you be without mercy for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that have felt your anger these seventy years?”

Zechariah 7:14

And I will scatter them among all the nations that they do not know. So the land was left desolate behind them with no one moving about, and they made a pleasant land into a wasteland.

Matthew 22:7

The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.