Jeremiah 22:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But if you will not heed these words, I swear by myself, says the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.

Cross References

Genesis 22:16

and said, “By myself I have sworn, says the Lord: Because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

2 Chronicles 7:19

“But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you and go and serve other gods and worship them,

2 Chronicles 7:21

And regarding this house, now exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this house?’

2 Chronicles 7:22

Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord the God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore he has brought all this calamity upon them.’ ”

Psalm 95:11

Therefore in my anger I swore, “They shall not enter my rest.”

Isaiah 1:20

but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Jeremiah 12:7

I have forsaken my house; I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my heart into the hands of her enemies.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy and to carry in no burden through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates; it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 26:4

You shall say to them: Thus says the Lord: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you

Jeremiah 39:8

The Chaldeans burned with fire the king’s house and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 44:26

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all you Judeans who live in the land of Egypt: I swear by my great name, says the Lord, that my name shall no longer be pronounced on the lips of any of the people of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, ‘As the Lord God lives.’

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by himself (says the Lord, the God of hosts): I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.

Matthew 23:38

See, your house is left to you, desolate.

Hebrews 3:18

And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?

Hebrews 6:13

When God made a promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

Hebrews 6:17

In the same way, when God desired to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it by an oath,