Jeremiah 22:5
But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become a desolation.” ’ ”
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Jeremiah 22:5
But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house will become a desolation.” ’ ”
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Jeremiah 22:1
Yahweh said, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak this word there:
Jeremiah 22:2
‘Hear Yahweh’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne—you, your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.
Jeremiah 22:3
Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 22:4
For if you do this thing indeed, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter in by the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses—they, their servants, and their people.
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Hebrews 6:16
For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
Hebrews 6:17
In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,
Hebrews 6:18
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
Isaiah 45:23
I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.
Hebrews 6:13
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,
Jeremiah 49:13
For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”
Amos 6:8
“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
Jeremiah 51:14
Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, and they will lift up a shout against you.’
Deuteronomy 32:40
For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,
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Genesis 22:15
Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,
Genesis 22:16
and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Genesis 22:17
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 22:18
All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”
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Jeremiah 22:6
For Yahweh says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.
Jeremiah 22:7
I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
Jeremiah 22:8
“Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this great city?’
Jeremiah 22:9
Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’ ”
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Leviticus 26:31
I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
Psalms 74:3
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Psalms 74:4
Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
Psalms 74:5
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
Psalms 74:6
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
Psalms 74:7
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
Psalms 74:8
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
Jeremiah 26:6
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
Jeremiah 26:9
Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant?’ ” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.
Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
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Numbers 14:30
surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Psalms 95:11
Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
Hebrews 3:18
To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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Jeremiah 12:7
“I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
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