Jeremiah 18:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;

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  • Jer 1:10 : 10 See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.
  • Jer 12:14-17 : 14 This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them. 15 And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land. 16 And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people. 17 But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.
  • Jer 25:9-9 : 9 See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever. 10 And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights. 11 All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years. 12 And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever. 13 And I will make that land undergo everything I have said against it, even everything recorded in this book, which Jeremiah the prophet has said against all the nations. 14 For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.
  • Jer 45:4 : 4 This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;
  • Amos 9:8 : 8 See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.
  • Jonah 3:4 : 4 And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 18:8-10
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    87%

    8If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.

    9And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it;

    10If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.

  • Jer 12:17
    82%

    17But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.

  • Jer 45:4
    80%

    4This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

  • Jer 1:10
    80%

    10See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.

  • Jer 18:5-6
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    78%

    5Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    6O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
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    20Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

  • Amos 9:8
    78%

    8See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.

  • Jer 31:28
    78%

    28And it will come about that, as I have been watching over them for the purpose of uprooting and smashing down and overturning and sending destruction and causing trouble; so I will be watching over them for the purpose of building up and planting, says the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
    75%

    7Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

  • Jer 22:7
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    7And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.

  • Jer 19:11
    74%

    11And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Even so will this people and this town be broken by me, as a potter's bottle is broken and may not be put together again: and the bodies of the dead will be put in the earth in Topheth, till there is no more room.

  • Jer 12:14
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    14This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them.

  • Jer 25:9
    74%

    9See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.

  • Jer 1:14-16
    3 verses
    74%

    14Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land.

    15For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.

    16And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.

  • Jer 9:9
    74%

    9Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Ezek 22:14
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    14Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.

  • Jer 50:21
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    21Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the people of Pekod; put them to death and send destruction after them, says the Lord, and do everything I have given you orders to do.

  • Jer 10:18
    74%

    18For the Lord has said, I will send the people in flight like a stone from the land at this time, troubling them so that they will be conscious of it.

  • Ezek 21:31
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    31And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

  • Mic 5:14
    74%

    14And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
    74%

    16These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book;

  • Jer 25:18
    73%

    18Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;

  • Ezek 25:7
    73%

    7For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Jer 27:8
    73%

    8And it will come about, that if any nation does not become a servant to this same Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will send punishment on that nation, says the Lord, by the sword and need of food and by disease, till I have given them into his hands.

  • Jer 21:11
    73%

    11About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord;

  • Isa 10:7
    73%

    7But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.

  • Jer 15:7
    73%

    7And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

  • Ezek 5:15
    73%

    15And you will be a name of shame and a cause of bitter words, an example and a wonder to the nations round about you, when I give effect to my judging among you in wrath and in passion and in burning protests: I the Lord have said it:

  • Hag 2:22
    73%

    22Overturning the power of kingdoms; and I will send destruction on the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; by me war-carriages will be overturned with those who are in them; and the horses and the horsemen will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

  • Jer 5:15
    73%

    15See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

  • 2 Kgs 18:25
    73%

    25And have I now come up to send destruction on this place without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.

  • Jer 51:20
    73%

    20You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;

  • Isa 10:11
    73%

    11So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.

  • Mic 5:11
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    11I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

  • Jer 13:14
    73%

    14I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

  • Jer 25:13
    73%

    13And I will make that land undergo everything I have said against it, even everything recorded in this book, which Jeremiah the prophet has said against all the nations.

  • Ezek 7:27
    73%

    27The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler will be clothed with wonder, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will give them punishment for their ways, judging them as it is right for them to be judged; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Nah 1:13
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    13And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.

  • Jer 50:26
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    26Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.

  • Jer 33:4
    73%

    4For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;

  • Ezek 17:11
    73%

    11Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Jer 51:25
    73%

    25See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.

  • Amos 4:11
    73%

    11And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

  • Amos 2:3
    72%

    3And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
    72%

    25Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.