Jeremiah 13:24
“The LORD says,‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.
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- Ps 1:4 : 4 Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.
- Lev 26:33 : 33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
- Ezek 5:2 : 2 Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.
- Ezek 5:12 : 12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.
- Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.
- Zeph 2:2 : 2 before God’s decree becomes reality and the day of opportunity disappears like windblown chaff, before the LORD’s raging anger overtakes you– before the day of the LORD’s angry judgment overtakes you!
- Luke 21:24 : 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
- Ezek 6:8 : 8 “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.
- Ezek 17:21 : 21 All the choice men among his troops will die by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken!
- Deut 4:27 : 27 Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
- Deut 28:64 : 64 The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.
- Deut 32:26 : 26 The Weakness of Other Gods“I said,‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.
- Ps 83:13-15 : 13 O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind! 14 Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, 15 chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.
- Isa 17:13 : 13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.
- Isa 41:16 : 16 You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
- Jer 4:11-12 : 11 “At that time the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be told,‘A scorching wind will sweep down from the hilltops in the wilderness on my dear people. It will not be a gentle breeze for winnowing the grain and blowing away the chaff. 12 No, a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding. Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’
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17 I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them when disaster strikes them.”
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14 All his retinue– his attendants and his troops– I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.
15 “Then they will know that I am the LORD when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.
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15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.
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18 How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
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33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
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24 Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.
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25 Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?
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7 The LORD continued,“In every town in the land I will purge them like straw blown away by the wind. I will destroy my people. I will kill off their children. I will do so because they did not change their behavior.
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27 make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands.
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