Jeremiah 5:9

World English Bible (2000)

Shouldn't I punish them for these things?" says Yahweh; "and shouldn't my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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  • Jer 9:9 : 9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
  • Jer 5:29 : 29 "Shall I not punish for these things?" says Yahweh. "Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
  • Lev 26:25 : 25 I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste."
  • Deut 32:43 : 43 Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.
  • Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;
  • Jer 23:2 : 2 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 44:22 : 22 so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
  • Lam 4:22 : 22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.
  • Ezek 5:13-15 : 13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them. 14 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by. 15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)
  • Ezek 7:9 : 9 My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike.
  • Hos 2:13 : 13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says Yahweh.
  • Hos 8:13 : 13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
  • Nah 1:2 : 2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 9:9-10
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    9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

    10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

  • Jer 5:29-30
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    94%

    29 "Shall I not punish for these things?" says Yahweh. "Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

    30 "An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.

  • Jer 5:10-11
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    79%

    10 "Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.

    11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me," says Yahweh.

  • Mic 5:15
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    15 I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn't listen."

  • Jer 25:29
    77%

    29 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Amos 9:8
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    8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh.

  • Ezek 9:9-10
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    75%

    9 Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.

    10 As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.

  • Jer 5:7
    75%

    7 "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.

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

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

    15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)

  • Amos 9:4
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    4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

  • Ezek 5:8-9
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    8 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.

    9 I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.

  • Ezek 7:8-9
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    74%

    8 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations.

    9 My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike.

  • Zeph 3:8
    74%

    8 "Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

  • Isa 1:24
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    24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies;

  • Jer 8:12
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    12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.

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

  • Jer 1:16
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    16 I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

  • Jer 13:9
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    9 Thus says Yahweh, In this way I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 44:6
    73%

    6 Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.

  • Zeph 1:9
    73%

    9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.

  • Jer 12:17
    73%

    17 But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh.

  • Nah 3:5
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    5 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

  • Ezek 16:38
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    38 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

  • Ezek 22:31
    73%

    31 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Jer 9:7
    73%

    7 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

  • Ezek 25:17
    73%

    17 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

  • Zech 11:6
    73%

    6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."

  • Isa 47:3
    73%

    3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man."

  • Amos 2:5
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    5 But I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem."

  • Jer 16:18
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    18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.

  • Isa 65:6
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    6 "Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,

  • Ezek 21:31
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    31 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

  • Jer 21:14
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    14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.

  • Exod 22:24
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    24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Jer 6:11
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    11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh. I am weary with holding in. "Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

  • Jer 22:8
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    8 Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
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    16 "Thus says Yahweh, 'Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.

  • Isa 13:9
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    9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

  • Isa 5:9
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    9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

  • Ezek 25:14
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    14 I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Jer 11:15
    72%

    15 What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has worked lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.

  • Zech 10:3
    72%

    3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats; For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.