Jeremiah 22:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

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  • Amos 6:8 : 8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, says the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
  • Heb 6:13 : 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
  • Gen 22:16 : 16 And said, By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:
  • Jer 17:27 : 27 But if you will not listen to me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
  • Deut 32:40-42 : 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever. 41 If I sharpen my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward those who hate me. 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenge upon the enemy.
  • 2 Chr 7:19 : 19 But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them;
  • 2 Chr 7:22 : 22 And they will answer, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity upon them.
  • Ps 95:11 : 11 Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
  • Isa 1:20 : 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
  • Jer 7:13-14 : 13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the LORD, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not listen; and I called you, but you did not answer; 14 Therefore I will do unto this house, which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
  • Jer 26:6-9 : 6 Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. 7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD. 8 Now it happened, when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, You shall surely die. 9 Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
  • Jer 39:8 : 8 The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Num 14:28-30 : 28 Say to them, As truly as I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: 29 Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, 30 Surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
  • Heb 6:17 : 17 In this way, God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable nature of His purpose, confirmed it with an oath:
  • Amos 8:7-8 : 7 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. 8 Will not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? It shall rise up wholly like a flood; it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
  • Heb 3:18 : 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not believe?

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