Jeremiah 18:7

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At any moment I might speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, to uproot it, tear it down, or destroy it.

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  • Jer 1:10 : 10 See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.
  • Jer 12:14-17 : 14 This is what the LORD says: 'As for all my evil neighbors who harm the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.' 15 'But after I have uprooted them, I will return and have compassion on them and will bring them back, each to their own inheritance and each to their own land.' 16 'And if they diligently learn the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, "As surely as the LORD lives," just as they once taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be established among my people.' 17 'But if they do not obey, I will completely uproot and destroy that nation,' declares the LORD.
  • Jer 25:9-9 : 9 I am about to send for all the clans of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them, making them an object of horror, scorn, and perpetual ruins. 10 I will banish from them the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 This entire land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. 12 'But when the seventy years are completed,' declares the LORD, 'I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, and I will make it desolate forever.' 13 I will bring upon that land everything I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations. 14 For many nations and great kings will make them serve, and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.
  • Jer 45:4 : 4 The LORD said, 'This is what you are to say to him: Behold, what I have built I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting—the entire land.'
  • Amos 9:8 : 8 'Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,' declares the Lord.
  • Jonah 3:4 : 4 Jonah began to go into the city, walking a journey of one day, and he proclaimed, saying, “In forty days Nineveh will be overturned!”

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  • Jer 18:8-10
    3 verses
    87%

    8But if that nation I have warned repents of its evil, then I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to bring upon it.

    9And at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or kingdom, to build it up or to plant it.

    10But if it does evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, then I will relent concerning the good I had promised to bless it with.

  • Jer 12:17
    82%

    17'But if they do not obey, I will completely uproot and destroy that nation,' declares the LORD.

  • Jer 45:4
    80%

    4The LORD said, 'This is what you are to say to him: Behold, what I have built I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting—the entire land.'

  • Jer 1:10
    80%

    10See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.

  • Jer 18:5-6
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    78%

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

    6“Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    78%

    20then I will uproot you from My land that I have given you, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • Amos 9:8
    78%

    8'Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,' declares the Lord.

  • Jer 31:28
    78%

    28Just as I watched over them to uproot, tear down, demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
    75%

    7then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. Israel will then become a proverb and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • Jer 22:7
    75%

    7I will send destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.

  • Jer 19:11
    74%

    11And say to them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s jar that cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury.’

  • Jer 12:14
    74%

    14This is what the LORD says: 'As for all my evil neighbors who harm the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.'

  • Jer 25:9
    74%

    9I am about to send for all the clans of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them, making them an object of horror, scorn, and perpetual ruins.

  • Jer 1:14-16
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    74%

    14Then the LORD said to me, 'From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.'

    15For I am summoning all the clans and kingdoms of the north,' declares the LORD. 'They will come, and each will set up his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, around all her walls, and against all the cities of Judah.

    16I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their evil in forsaking Me, burning incense to other gods, and worshiping the works of their own hands.

  • Jer 9:9
    74%

    9I will raise weeping and wailing for the mountains and a dirge for the pastures in the wilderness, because they are burned up and desolate; no one passes through, and cattle cannot be heard anymore—birds of the sky and animals alike have fled and are gone.

  • Ezek 22:14
    74%

    14Will your heart stand firm? Will your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.

  • Jer 50:21
    74%

    21Attack the land of Merathaim and those who live in Pekod! Pursue them, kill them completely, and devote them to destruction, declares the LORD. Do everything I have commanded you.

  • Jer 10:18
    74%

    18For this is what the Lord says: 'I am about to sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time and bring distress on them so that they may be found.'

  • Ezek 21:31
    74%

    31This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are. Exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.

  • Mic 5:14
    74%

    14In anger and wrath, I will execute vengeance on the nations that have not obeyed.

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
    74%

    16‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am bringing disaster on this place and on its inhabitants—all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read—’

  • Jer 25:18
    73%

    18Jerusalem, the towns of Judah, its kings, and officials, to make them a ruin, a desolation, an object of hissing and cursing, as they are today.

  • Ezek 25:7
    73%

    7therefore, I will stretch out my hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples, destroy you from the lands, and annihilate you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Jer 27:8
    73%

    8But any nation or kingdom that will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or place its neck under his yoke—I will punish that nation with sword, famine, and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand.

  • Jer 21:11
    73%

    11To the house of the king of Judah: Hear the word of the LORD.

  • Isa 10:7
    73%

    7But this is not what he intends, nor does he plan it in his heart. Instead, his purpose is to destroy and to cut off many nations.

  • Jer 15:7
    73%

    7I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land; I have bereaved and destroyed My people, yet they have not turned from their ways.

  • Ezek 5:15
    73%

    15You will be a reproach, a mockery, a warning, and a horror to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and furious rebukes! I, the LORD, have spoken.

  • Hag 2:22
    73%

    22I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders. Horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.

  • Jer 5:15
    73%

    15Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from far away, O house of Israel, declares the Lord. It is a mighty nation, an ancient nation, one whose language you do not know and whose speech you cannot understand.

  • 2 Kgs 18:25
    73%

    25Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the LORD’s approval? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’"

  • Jer 51:20
    73%

    20You are My war club, My weapon of battle: with you, I shatter nations, and with you, I destroy kingdoms.

  • Isa 10:11
    73%

    11shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?

  • Mic 5:11
    73%

    11I will remove sorceries from your hand, and you will have no more soothsayers.

  • Jer 13:14
    73%

    14And I will shatter them, one against another, fathers and sons together,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will show no pity, no compassion, and no mercy to prevent their destruction.’

  • Jer 25:13
    73%

    13I will bring upon that land everything I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations.

  • Ezek 7:27
    73%

    27The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct and judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Nah 1:13
    73%

    13Now I will break their yoke from your neck and tear your shackles away.

  • Jer 50:26
    73%

    26Come against her from the farthest borders; open her granaries. Heap her up like piles of grain and destroy her completely. Let nothing be left of her.

  • Jer 33:4
    73%

    4For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that have been torn down to defend against the siege ramps and the sword:

  • Ezek 17:11
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    11Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Jer 51:25
    73%

    25Behold, I am against you, the destroying mountain, declares the Lord, you who destroy the whole earth. I will stretch out My hand against you, roll you off the cliffs, and make you a burned-out mountain.

  • Amos 4:11
    73%

    11I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a firebrand snatched from the burning, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.

  • Amos 2:3
    72%

    3'I will cut off the ruler from its midst and kill all its officials with him,' declares the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
    72%

    25Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of rubble.