Jeremiah 42:16

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there, in the land of Egypt; and the famine that you dread shall follow close after you into Egypt; and there you shall die.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:21

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Jeremiah 27:8

But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this king, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, says the Lord, until I have completed its destruction by his hand.

Jeremiah 41:18

because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

Jeremiah 42:13

But if you continue to say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ thus disobeying the voice of the Lord your God

Jeremiah 44:27

I am going to watch over them for harm and not for good; all the people of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall perish by the sword and by famine, until not one is left.

Ezekiel 11:8

You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, says the Lord God.

Zechariah 1:6

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your ancestors? So they repented and said, “The Lord of hosts has dealt with us according to our ways and deeds, just as he planned to do.”

John 11:48

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.”

Deuteronomy 28:15

But if you will not obey the Lord your God by diligently observing all his commandments and decrees, which I am commanding you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you:

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:45

All these curses shall come upon you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God, by observing the commandments and the decrees that he commanded you.