Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple. They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.
Jeremiah 21:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I will punish you according to what you have done – this is the Lord’s declaration. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around it.” ’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord. I will kindle a fire in your forest, and it will devour all that is round about you. American Standard Version (1901) And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her. Common English Bible I will punish you based on what you have done, declares the LORD. I will set your forests on fire; the flames will engulf everything around you. Catholic Public Domain Version But I will visit against you according to the fruit of your intentions, says the Lord. And I will kindle a fire in its forest. And it shall devour everything around it." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But I will visit upon you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof: and it shall devour all things round about it. |
Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple. They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.
they will eat the fruit of their way and be glutted with their own schemes.
A person will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the work of a person’s hands will reward him.
But when the Lord finishes all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, ‘I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.’
Therefore the Lord God of Armies will inflict an emaciating disease on the well-fed of Assyria, and he will kindle a burning fire under its glory.
On that day the Lord will punish the army of the heights in the heights and the kings of the ground on the ground.
You have mocked the Lord through your servants. You have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, its choice cypress trees. I came to its distant heights, its densest forest.
The Lord named you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. He has set fire to it, and its branches are consumed , with the sound of a mighty tumult.
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: ‘I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine.
I, the Lord, examine the mind, I test the heart , to give to each according to his way, according to what his actions deserve.
But if you do not listen to me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, I will set fire to its gates, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem and not be extinguished.” ’
This is what the Lord says: ‘Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and announce this word there.
I will set apart destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.
the one great in counsel and powerful in action. Your eyes are on all the ways of the children of men in order to reward each person according to his ways and as the result of his actions.
They will cut down her forest – this is the Lord’s declaration – though it is dense, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.
The arrogant will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. I will set fire to his cities, and it will consume everything around him.
He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses.
Listen, earth! I am about to bring disaster on these people, the fruit of their own plotting, for they have paid no attention to my words. They have rejected my instruction.
The bellows blow, blasting the lead with fire. The refining is completely in vain; the evil ones are not separated out.
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He has cut off every horn of Israel in his burning anger and withdrawn his right hand in the presence of the enemy. He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything.
and say to it, “This is what the Lord says: I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
Then the earth will become a wasteland because of its inhabitants and as a result of their actions.