Leviticus 26:25

New American Bible - revised edition

I will bring against you the sword, the avenger of my covenant. Though you then huddle together in your cities, I will send pestilence among you, till you are delivered to the enemy.

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:15

Thus David chose the plague. At the time of the wheat harvest it broke out among the people. The Lord sent plague over Israel from morning until the time appointed, and from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand of the people died.

1 Kings 8:33

“When your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they sinned against you, and then they return to you, praise your name, pray to you, and entreat you in this house,

1 Kings 8:37

“If there is famine in the land or pestilence; or if blight comes, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars; if an enemy of your people presses upon them in the land and at their gates; whatever plague or sickness there may be;

2 Kings 17:3

Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, advanced against him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.

2 Chronicles 24:24

Though the Aramean force was small, the Lord handed over a very large force into their power, because Judah had abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors. So judgment was meted out to Joash.

Psalm 94:1

Lord, avenging God, avenging God, shine forth!

Exodus 5:3

They replied, “The God of the Hebrews has come to meet us. Let us go a three days’ journey in the wilderness, that we may offer sacrifice to the Lord, our God, so that he does not strike us with the plague or the sword.”

Isaiah 1:20

But if you refuse and resist, you shall be eaten by the sword: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken!

Isaiah 65:12

You I will destine for the sword; you shall all bow down for slaughter; Because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen, But did what is evil in my sight and things I do not delight in, you chose,

Jeremiah 19:7

In this place I will foil the plan of Judah and Jerusalem; I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hand of those who seek their lives. Their corpses I will give as food to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 24:10

I will send upon them sword, famine, and pestilence, until they have disappeared from the land which I gave them and their ancestors.

Jeremiah 50:28

Listen! the fugitives, the refugees from the land of Babylon: They announce in Zion the retribution of the Lord, our God.

Jeremiah 51:11

Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers; The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, for his resolve is Babylon’s destruction. Yes, it is retribution from the Lord, retribution for his temple.

Jeremiah 9:16

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Inquire, and call the wailing women to come; summon the most skilled of them.

Lamentations 2:21

They lie on the ground in the streets, young and old alike; Both my young women and young men are cut down by the sword; You killed them on the day of your wrath, slaughtered without pity.

Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I bring the sword upon this land, commanding the sword to pass through the land cutting off from it human being and beast alike,

Ezekiel 20:37

Thus I will make you pass under the staff and will impose on you the terms of the covenant.

Ezekiel 29:8

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Look! I am bringing the sword against you to cut off from you people and animals.

Ezekiel 33:2

Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: When I bring the sword against a land, if the people of that land select one of their number as a sentinel for them,

Ezekiel 5:17

I will send against you starvation and wild beasts who will leave you childless, while disease and bloodshed sweep through you. I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Ezekiel 6:3

You shall say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: Pay attention! I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

Hosea 11:6

The sword shall rage in his cities: it shall destroy his diviners, and devour them because of their schemings.

Leviticus 26:6

I will establish peace in the land, and you will lie down to rest with no one to cause you anxiety. I will rid the country of ravenous beasts, and no sword shall sweep across your land.

Amos 4:10

I sent upon you pestilence like that of Egypt; with the sword I killed your young men and your captured horses, and to your nostrils I brought the stench of your camps; Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

Habakkuk 3:5

Before him went pestilence, and plague followed in his steps.

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with pestilence and disown them. Then I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

Numbers 31:3

So Moses told the people, “Arm some men among you for the campaign, to attack Midian and to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian.

Luke 21:11

There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and mighty signs will come from the sky. The Coming Persecution.

Deuteronomy 28:21

The Lord will make disease cling to you until he has made an end of you from the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Out in the street the sword shall bereave, and at home the terror For the young man and the young woman alike, the nursing babe as well as the gray beard.

Deuteronomy 32:35

Vengeance is mine and recompense, for the time they lose their footing; Because the day of their disaster is at hand and their doom is rushing upon them!

Deuteronomy 32:41

When I sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand lays hold of judgment, With vengeance I will repay my foes and requite those who hate me.

Judges 15:11

Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the crag of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are our rulers? Why, then, have you done this to us?” He answered them, “As they have done to me, so have I done to them.”