Jeremiah 5:9

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Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not take vengeance on a nation like this?

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  • Jer 9:9 : 9 I 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.
  • Jer 5:29 : 29 Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
  • Lev 26:25 : 25 I will bring the sword upon you to avenge the breaking of the covenant, and when you retreat into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hands of the enemy.
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip, for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is quickly approaching.
  • Deut 32:43 : 43 Rejoice, you nations, with His people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants; He will take vengeance on His enemies and make atonement for His land and people.
  • Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore, this is the declaration of the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "I will gain relief from My adversaries and avenge Myself on My enemies.
  • Jer 23:2 : 2 Therefore, this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the shepherds who tend My people: You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I am about to punish you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD.
  • Jer 44:22 : 22 Because the LORD could no longer endure the wickedness of your actions and the detestable things you committed, your land became a ruin, a desolation, and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today.
  • Lam 4:22 : 22 The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; He will keep you in exile no longer. But He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.
  • Ezek 5:13-15 : 13 Then My anger will be fully spent, and I will satisfy My fury on them and be appeased. They will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them. 14 I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15 You 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.
  • Ezek 7:9 : 9 'I will not look on you with pity or spare you. I will repay you according to your conduct and the detestable practices among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes you.'
  • Hos 2:13 : 13 I will put an end to all her celebrations: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.
  • Hos 8:13 : 13 They offer sacrifices as gifts for me and eat the meat, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.
  • Nah 1:2 : 2 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord takes vengeance and is filled with wrath. The Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and reserves wrath for his enemies.

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  • Jer 9:9-10
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    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.

    10I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

  • Jer 5:29-30
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    29Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

    30A terrible and shocking thing has happened in the land:

  • Jer 5:10-11
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    10Go 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.

    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been thoroughly unfaithful to Me, declares the Lord.

  • Jer 25:29
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    29For behold, I am bringing disaster on the city that bears my name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.

  • Amos 9:8
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    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.

  • Ezek 9:9-10
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    9He said to me, 'The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of injustice. They say, "The LORD has abandoned the land, and the LORD does not see."'

    10'But as for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I show pity. I will bring their actions back upon their own heads.'

  • Jer 5:7
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    7How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • Isa 10:11
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    11shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?

  • Ezek 5:14-15
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    14I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

    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.

  • Amos 9:4
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    4'If they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.'

  • Ezek 5:8-9
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    8Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I Myself am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

    9Because of all your abominations, I will do what I have never done before and will never do again.

  • Ezek 7:8-9
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    8'I am about to pour out my wrath upon you and exhaust my anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and bring upon you all your detestable practices.'

    9'I will not look on you with pity or spare you. I will repay you according to your conduct and the detestable practices among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes you.'

  • Zeph 3:8
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    8Therefore, wait for me, declares the LORD, until the day I rise to testify. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation—all the burning heat of my anger. For in the fire of my jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed.

  • Isa 1:24
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    24Therefore, this is the declaration of the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "I will gain relief from My adversaries and avenge Myself on My enemies.

  • Jer 8:12
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    12Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they do not feel any shame. They do not even know how to blush. Therefore, they will fall among the fallen. At the time of their punishment, they will stumble, says the LORD.

  • Hos 4:9
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    9And it will be like people, like priest. I will punish them for their ways, and repay them for their deeds.

  • Jer 1:16
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    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 13:9
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    9"This is what the LORD says: 'In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 44:6
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    6So my fury and my anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, making them a desolate ruin, as they are today.

  • Zeph 1:9
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    9On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, who fills their master’s house with violence and deceit.

  • Jer 12:17
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    17'But if they do not obey, I will completely uproot and destroy that nation,' declares the LORD.

  • Nah 3:5
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    5Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts. I will lift up your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame.

  • Ezek 16:38
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    38I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood. I will bring upon you the wrath and jealousy of my judgment.

  • Ezek 22:31
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    31So I have poured out my indignation upon them, consumed them with the fire of my wrath, and brought their own ways down upon their heads, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Jer 9:7
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    7Their tongues are a sharpened arrow; deceit pours from their mouths. They speak peace to their neighbor, but in their hearts, they set up an ambush.

  • Ezek 25:17
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    17I will carry out great acts of vengeance on them and punish them with furious rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I take vengeance on them.

  • Zech 11:6
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    6For I will no longer show pity to the people of the land,' declares the LORD. 'I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will crush the land, and I will not deliver them from their power.'

  • Isa 47:3
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    3Your nakedness will be uncovered, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.

  • Amos 2:5
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    5'So I will send fire upon Judah, and it will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.'

  • Jer 16:18
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    18I will first repay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled My inheritance with their abominations.

  • Isa 65:6
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    6Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps.

  • Ezek 21:31
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    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.

  • Jer 21:14
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    14I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will consume everything around her.

  • Exod 22:24
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    24If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.

  • Jer 6:11
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    11But I am full of the wrath of the Lord, and I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the streets and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be taken, the old and those advanced in years.

  • Jer 22:8
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    8Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?'

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
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    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—’

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    9See, the day of the LORD is coming—a cruel day with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and to destroy the sinners within it.

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    14I will take my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to my anger and my wrath. Then they will know my vengeance, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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    15What right does my beloved have in my house, when she has done so many wicked schemes? Can consecrated meat remove your evil? Then you would exult!

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    3My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For the LORD of Hosts cares for His flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like a splendid warhorse.