Jeremiah 49:5

New International Reader's Version

I will bring terror on you. It will come from all those around you,” announces the Lord. He is the Lord who rules over all. “Every one of you will be driven away. No one will bring back those who escape.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:7

Listen! I will send him news from his own country. It will make him want to return home. There I will have him killed by a sword.” ’ ”

Job 15:21

Terrifying sounds fill their ears. When everything seems to be going well, robbers attack them.

Proverbs 28:1

Sinners run away even when no one is chasing them. But those who do what is right are as bold as lions.

Isaiah 16:3

The Moabites say to the rulers of Judah, “Make up your mind. Make a decision. Cover us with your shadow. Make it like night even at noon. Hide those of us who are running away. Don’t turn them over to their enemies.

Jeremiah 15:8

I will increase the number of their widows. There will be more of them than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noon I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of the young men among my people. All at once I will bring down on them great suffering and terror.

Jeremiah 16:16

“But now I will send for many fishermen,” announces the Lord. “They will catch some of these people. After that, I will send for many hunters. They will hunt down the others on every mountain and hill. They will bring them out of the cracks in the rocks.

Jeremiah 20:4

The Lord says to you, ‘I will make you a terror to yourself. You will also be a terror to all your friends. With your own eyes you will see them die. Their enemies will kill them with swords. I will hand over all the people of Judah to the king of Babylon. He will carry them away to Babylon or kill them with swords.

Jeremiah 46:5

What do I see? The Egyptians are terrified. They are pulling back. Their soldiers are losing. They run away as fast as they can. They do not look back. There is terror on every side,” announces the Lord.

Jeremiah 49:29

Their tents and flocks will be taken away from them. Their tents will be carried off. All their goods and camels will be stolen. People will shout to them, ‘There is terror on every side!’

Jeremiah 6:25

Don’t go out to the fields. Don’t walk on the roads. Our enemies have swords. And there is terror on every side.

Lamentations 4:15

“Go away! You are ‘unclean’!” people cry out to them. “Go away! Get out of here! Don’t touch us!” So they run away and wander around. Then people among the nations say, “They can’t stay here anymore.”

Amos 4:3

Each of you will go straight out through gaps made in the wall. You will be thrown out toward Harmon,” announces the Lord.

Joshua 2:9

She said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land. We are very much afraid of you. Everyone who lives in this country is weak with fear because of you.