Jeremiah 45:4

New American Bible - revised edition

You must say this to him. Thus says the Lord: What I have built, I am tearing down; what I have planted, I am uprooting: all this land.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build.

Jeremiah 1:10

Today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, To uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.

Jeremiah 11:17

The Lord of hosts who planted you has decreed disaster for you because of the evil done by the house of Israel and by the house of Judah, who provoked me by sacrificing to Baal. The Plot Against Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 12:2

You planted them; they have taken root, they flourish and bear fruit as well. You are upon their lips, but far from their thoughts.

Jeremiah 31:28

As I once watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, to destroy, and to harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant—oracle of the Lord.

Lamentations 2:6

He laid waste his booth like a garden, destroyed his shrine; The Lord has blotted out in Zion feast day and sabbath, Has scorned in fierce wrath king and priest.

Hosea 2:14

I will lay waste her vines and fig trees, of which she said, “These are the fees my lovers have given me”; I will turn them into rank growth and wild animals shall devour them.

Deuteronomy 28:63

Just as the Lord once took delight in making you prosper and grow, so will the Lord now take delight in ruining and destroying you, and you will be plucked out of the land you are now entering to possess.