Jeremiah 25:9

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Jeremiah 25:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 ‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’

8 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,

9 behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.

10 Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

11 And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

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Jeremiah 1:15

For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 5:15

Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.

Jeremiah 6:1

“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.

Jeremiah 6:22

This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.

Jeremiah 6:23

They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 6:25

Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Jeremiah 8:16

The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.

Leviticus 26:25

And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26:27

But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

Leviticus 26:28

then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Leviticus 26:31

I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

Leviticus 26:32

And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

Leviticus 26:33

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

Leviticus 26:34

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

Leviticus 26:35

As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

Leviticus 26:36

As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

Leviticus 26:37

They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

Leviticus 26:38

You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

Leviticus 26:39

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

Leviticus 26:40

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

Leviticus 26:41

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

Leviticus 26:42

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26:43

For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

Leviticus 26:44

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

Leviticus 26:45

But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”

Leviticus 26:46

These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 28:45

All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.

Deuteronomy 28:46

These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 28:47

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

Deuteronomy 28:48

you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,

Deuteronomy 28:50

a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.

Isaiah 5:26

He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!

Isaiah 5:27

None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.

Isaiah 5:28

Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.

Isaiah 5:29

Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.

Isaiah 5:30

In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

Isaiah 39:7

And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Habakkuk 1:6

For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans — that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

Habakkuk 1:7

They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

Habakkuk 1:9

All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.

Habakkuk 1:10

They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.

Jeremiah 27:6

So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.

Jeremiah 40:2

The captain of the guard found Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place,

Jeremiah 43:10

Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

Isaiah 13:3

I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.

Isaiah 44:28

who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,’ who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Let its foundation be laid.’”

Isaiah 45:1

This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

Ezekiel 29:18

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.

Ezekiel 29:19

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will carry off its wealth, seize its spoil, and remove its plunder. This will be the wages for his army.

Ezekiel 29:20

I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his labor, because it was done for Me, declares the Lord GOD.

Jeremiah 25:17

So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,

Jeremiah 25:18

to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;

Jeremiah 25:19

Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people;

Jeremiah 25:20

all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

Jeremiah 25:21

Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

Jeremiah 25:22

all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;

Jeremiah 25:23

Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

Jeremiah 25:24

all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;

Jeremiah 25:25

all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;

Jeremiah 25:26

all the kings of the north, both near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshach will drink it too.

Jeremiah 27:3

Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

Jeremiah 27:4

Give them a message from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, to relay to their masters:

Jeremiah 27:5

By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Jeremiah 27:8

As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.

Ezekiel 26:7

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.

Ezekiel 30:10

This is what the Lord GOD says: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Ezekiel 30:11

He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

Jeremiah 18:16

They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

1 Kings 9:8

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’