Jeremiah 6:5

New American Bible - revised edition

“Up! let us rush upon her by night, destroy her palaces!”

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.

Psalm 48:3

fairest of heights, the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, the heights of Zaphon, the city of the great king.

Isaiah 32:14

The castle will be forsaken, the noisy city deserted; Citadel and tower will become wasteland forever, the joy of wild donkeys, the pasture of flocks;

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 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 9:21

Corpses shall fall like dung in the open field, Like sheaves behind the harvester, with no one to gather them.

Hosea 8:14

Israel has forgotten his maker and has built palaces. Judah, too, has fortified many cities, but I will send fire upon his cities, to devour their strongholds.

Amos 2:5

I will send fire upon Judah, and it will devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a message from the Lord, and a herald has been sent among the nations: “Rise up, so we may go to war against it!”

Zechariah 11:1

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