Jeremiah 44:27
Behold me! watching over them for calamity, and not for blessing,—so shall all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt, be consumed, by sword and by famine until there be an end of them.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Jeremiah 1:10See! I have set thee in charge this day, over the nations and over the kingdoms, To uproot and to break down, and to destroy and to tear in pieces,—To build and to plant.
Jeremiah 21:10For I have set my face against this city, for calamity and not for blessing, Declareth Yahweh,—Into the hand of the king of Babylon, shall it be given up, and he will burn it with fire.
Jeremiah 44:12and I will take the remnant of Judah who did set their faces to enter the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, in the land of Egypt, shall they fall by the sword, by famine, shall they be consumed, from the least even unto the greatest, by sword and by famine, shall they die,—so shall they become a curse, and an astonishment, and a contempt and a reproach;
Ezekiel 7:6An end hath come, Come hath the end It hath roused itself up against thee,— Lo! it hath come.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 44:21-30
Jeremiah's Continued Remonstrance. ( b. c. 587.) 20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, 21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them, and came it not into his mind? 22 So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the… Read the whole commentary →