Jeremiah 12:12

New International Version

Over all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will swarm, for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other; no one will be safe.

Cross References

Amos 9:4

Though they are driven into exile by their enemies, there I will command the sword to slay them. “I will keep my eye on them for harm and not for good.”

Jeremiah 47:6

“ ‘Alas, sword of the Lord, how long till you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still.’

Ezekiel 14:17

“Or if I bring a sword against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,

Isaiah 34:6

The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat— the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Revelation 6:4

Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.

Zephaniah 2:12

“You Cushites, too, will be slain by my sword.”

Ezekiel 5:2

When the days of your siege come to an end, burn a third of the hair inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind. For I will pursue them with drawn sword.

Jeremiah 48:2

Moab will be praised no more; in Heshbon people will plot her downfall: ‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’ You, the people of Madmen, will also be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

Jeremiah 34:17

“Therefore this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people. So I now proclaim ‘freedom’ for you, declares the Lord—‘freedom’ to fall by the sword, plague and famine. I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Jeremiah 15:2

And if they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says: “ ‘Those destined for death, to death; those for the sword, to the sword; those for starvation, to starvation; those for captivity, to captivity.’

Jeremiah 3:2

“Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Isaiah 57:21

“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

Jeremiah 3:21

A cry is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the Lord their God.

Jeremiah 4:27

This is what the Lord says: “The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.

Jeremiah 16:5

For this is what the Lord says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 30:5

“This is what the Lord says: “ ‘Cries of fear are heard— terror, not peace.

Jeremiah 46:10

But that day belongs to the Lord, the Lord Almighty— a day of vengeance, for vengeance on his foes. The sword will devour till it is satisfied, till it has quenched its thirst with blood. For the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will offer sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

Lamentations 3:17

I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

Ezekiel 21:4

Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.

Ezekiel 21:28

“And you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says about the Ammonites and their insults: “ ‘A sword, a sword, drawn for the slaughter, polished to consume and to flash like lightning!

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.

Ezekiel 21:8

The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 21:9

“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord says: “ ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—