Jeremiah 22:7

And I will hallow against thee Destroyers Every man with his weapons,—And they shall cut down of the choicest of thy cedars, and cast upon the fire.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

In Context

6For Thus, saith Yahweh Concerning the house of the king of Judah,—Though thou wast Gilead, to me, The summit of Lebanon, Yet surely I will make thee, A wilderness, Cities, not habitable;

8Then shall many nations pass by this city,—and shall say, every man to his neighbour, For what cause, hath Yahweh done thus, unto this great city?

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Cross References

Isaiah 10:33Behold! the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, is about to lop off a tree-crown, with a crash,—Then shall, they who are lifted on high, be hewn down, And, the lofty, be laid low;

Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city, is solitary, The dwelling forsaken and left as a wilderness,—There, shall the calf feed, And, there, lie down And shall consume the branches thereof:

Isaiah 54:16Lo! I, have created the smith, who bloweth up a fire of coals, And who bringeth forth an instrument for his work,—And, I, have created the waster to destroy:

Jeremiah 5:15Behold me! bringing upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, Declareth Yahweh,—A nation invincible, it is, A nation from age-past times, hath it been, A nation whose tongue thou shalt not know, Neither shalt thou understand what it speaketh:

Jeremiah 50:20In those days and in that time, Declareth Yahweh, The iniquity of Israel, shall be sought, and there shall be none, And the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found; For I will grant pardon to them whom I suffer to remain.

Zechariah 11:1Open, O Lebanon, thy doors,—that a fire, may devour, thy cedar,

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 22:2-10

Jeremiah Preaches before Jehoiakim. ( b. c. 590.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, 2 And say, Hear the word of the Lord , O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: 3 Thus saith the Lord ; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither… Read the whole commentary →

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