Jeremiah 4:18

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Jeremiah 4:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 Warn the nations now! Proclaim to Jerusalem: “A besieging army comes from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.

17 They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

18 “Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

20 Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

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Jeremiah 2:17

Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 5:19

And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”

Job 20:5

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Job 20:6

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

Job 20:7

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

Job 20:8

He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Job 20:9

The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

Job 20:10

His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.

Job 20:11

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

Job 20:12

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

Job 20:13

though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

Job 20:14

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

Job 20:15

He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.

Job 20:16

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

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Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

Proverbs 1:31

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

Isaiah 50:1

This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.