Jeremiah 21:14

I have assigned the fruit of your practices to come against you—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1 and I will light a fire in the thickets, and it will consume everything around it.'”

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In The King James Version

But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

In Context

13See, inhabitant of the valley! I am against you, rock of the plain—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1 I am against anyone who is saying, “Who will come down to attack us?” or “Who will enter our houses?” 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:19They burned down the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all the beautiful things in it.

Proverbs 12:14From the fruit of his words a person is filled with good things, 1 just as the work of his hands rewards him. 1

Isaiah 10:12When the Lord has finished his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and his prideful looks.

Isaiah 24:21On that day Yahweh will punish the host of the heaven in the heavens, 1 and the kings of the earth on the earth. 1

Isaiah 37:24By your servants you have defied the Lord and have said, 'With the multitude of my chariots 1 I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the highest elevations of Lebanon. 1 I will cut down its tall cedars and choice cypress trees there, 1 and I will enter into its farthest high places, its most fruitful forest. 1

Jeremiah 6:29The bellows are scorched by the fire that is burning them; the lead is consumed in the flames. 1 The refining continues among them, but it is useless, because the evil is not removed. 1

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 →

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