Jeremiah 5:15

New American Bible - revised edition

Beware! I will bring against you a nation from far away, O House of Israel—oracle of the Lord; A long-lived nation, an ancient nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you cannot understand.

Cross References

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.

Psalm 81:5

For this is a law for Israel, an edict of the God of Jacob,

Isaiah 28:11

Yes, with stammering lips and in a strange language he will speak to this people,

Isaiah 29:3

I will encamp like David against you; I will circle you with outposts and set up siege works against you.

Isaiah 29:6

you shall be visited by the Lord of hosts, With thunder, earthquake, and great noise, whirlwind, storm, and the flame of consuming fire.

Isaiah 33:19

You shall no longer see a defiant people, a people of speech too obscure to comprehend, stammering in a tongue not understood.

Isaiah 39:3

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say to you? Where did they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They came to me from a distant land, from Babylon.”

Isaiah 5:26

He will raise a signal to a far-off nation, and whistle for it from the ends of the earth. Then speedily and promptly they will come.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!

Jeremiah 1:15

Look, I am summoning all the kingdoms of the north—oracle of the Lord— Each king shall come and set up his throne in the gateways of Jerusalem, Against all its surrounding walls and against all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 2:26

As the thief is shamed when caught, so shall the house of Israel be shamed: They, their kings, their princes, their priests and their prophets;

Jeremiah 25:9

I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 4:16

“Make this known to the nations, announce it against Jerusalem: Besiegers are coming from the distant land, shouting their war cry against the cities of Judah.”

Jeremiah 5:11

For they have openly rebelled against me, both the house of Israel and the house of Judah— oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:22

Thus says the Lord: See, a people comes from the land of the north, a great nation, rising from the very ends of the earth.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the crimes you have committed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

Daniel 1:4

They should be young men without any defect, handsome, proficient in wisdom, well informed, and insightful, such as could take their place in the king’s palace; he was to teach them the language and literature of the Chaldeans.

Daniel 7:7

After this, in the visions of the night I saw a fourth beast, terrifying, horrible, and of extraordinary strength; it had great iron teeth with which it devoured and crushed, and it trampled with its feet what was left. It differed from the beasts that preceded it. It had ten horns.

Amos 6:14

Look, I am raising up against you, house of Israel— oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts— A nation that shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath even to the Wadi Arabah.

Habakkuk 3:16

I hear, and my body trembles; at the sound, my lips quiver. Decay invades my bones, my legs tremble beneath me. I await the day of distress that will come upon the people who attack us.

1 Corinthians 14:21

It is written in the law: “By people speaking strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you do not know will consume the fruit of your soil and of all your labor, and you will be thoroughly oppressed and continually crushed,

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will raise up against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, that swoops down like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,