Jeremiah 30:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And their children will be as they were in the old days, and the meeting of the people will have its place before me, and I will send punishment on all who are cruel to them.

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  • Gen 17:5-9 : 5 No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations. 6 I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring. 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God. 9 And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.
  • Ps 90:16-17 : 16 Make your work clear to your servants, and your glory to their children. 17 Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.
  • Ps 102:18 : 18 This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.
  • Ps 102:28 : 28 The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
  • Isa 1:26-27 : 26 And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town. 27 Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.
  • Isa 49:26 : 26 And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.
  • Isa 51:22 : 22 This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:
  • Jer 2:3 : 3 Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.
  • Jer 30:16 : 16 For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.
  • Jer 32:39 : 39 And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
  • Jer 50:33-34 : 33 This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go. 34 Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.
  • Isa 54:14 : 14 All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.

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  • 19 And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.

  • 21 And their chief will be of their number; their ruler will come from among themselves; and I will let him be present before me, so that he may come near to me: for who may have strength of heart to come near me? says the Lord.

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    4 And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.

    5 And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

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    8 For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.

    9 And their seed will be noted among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples: it will be clear to all who see them that they are the seed to which the Lord has given his blessing.

  • 12 This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.

  • 9 And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.

  • 9 For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

  • 6 See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,

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    21 Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

    22 For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.

  • 8 Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

  • 30 If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

  • 22 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:

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    21 Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.

    22 The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come quickly in its time.

  • 17 Your builders are coming quickly; your haters and those who made you waste will go out of you.

  • 23 Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.

  • 32 Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

  • 21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • 13 And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.

  • 28 And 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.

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    18 I will take away your troubles, lifting up your shame from off you.

    19 See, at that time I will put an end to all who have been troubling you: I will give salvation to her whose steps are uncertain, and get together her who has been sent in flight; and I will make them a cause of praise and an honoured name in all the earth, when I let their fate be changed.

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

  • 30 And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.

  • 19 Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.

  • 33 This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.

  • 11 But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the Lord of armies.

  • 24 And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

  • 11 For I am with you, says the Lord, to be your saviour: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you wandering, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.

  • 28 The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.

  • 30 A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.

  • 30 And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.

  • 14 I will give the priests their desired fat things, and my people will have a full measure of my good things, says the Lord.

  • 7 And 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.

  • 16 Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

  • 10 And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be living in the place which is theirs, and never again be moved; and never again will they be troubled by evil men as they were at the first,

  • 9 But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.

  • 23 But when they, the children of Jacob, see the work of my hands among them, they will give honour to my name; yes, they will give honour to the Holy One of Jacob, and go in fear of the God of Israel.

  • 16 For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.

  • 17 And there is hope for the future, says the Lord; and your children will come back to the land which is theirs.

  • 9 And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be in the place which is theirs and never again be moved; and never again will they be made waste by evil men, as they were at first,

  • 24 And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.

  • 30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

  • 25 But the Lord says, Even the prisoners of the strong will be taken from him, and the cruel made to let go his goods: for I will take up your cause against your haters, and I will keep your children safe.

  • 20 Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

  • 18 And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.

  • 7 I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.