Jeremiah 21:14
I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.
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2 Chronicles 36:19And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.
Proverbs 12:14From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.
Isaiah 10:12For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.
Isaiah 24:21And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.
Isaiah 37:24You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
Jeremiah 6:29The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 21:9-14
Answer to Zedekiah's Message; Advice to the King and the People. ( b. c. 590.) 8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. 9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. 10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the Lord :… Read the whole commentary →