Verse 18

Yet even in those days, declares the Lord, I will not completely destroy you.

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  • Jer 4:27 : 27 For this is what the LORD says: The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not bring it to complete destruction.
  • Jer 5:10 : 10 Go up among her rows and destroy them, but do not completely finish them off. Remove her branches, for they do not belong to the Lord.
  • Ezek 9:8 : 8 As they were striking, I was left alone. I fell face down and cried out, 'Ah, Sovereign LORD! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in your outpouring of wrath on Jerusalem?'
  • Ezek 11:13 : 13 Now it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell face down and cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Alas, Lord God! Will You completely destroy the remnant of Israel?'
  • Rom 11:1-5 : 1 So I ask, did God reject His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel? 3 "Lord, they have killed Your prophets, and have torn down Your altars. I alone am left, and they seek my life." 4 But what was God’s answer to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.