And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
Parallel translations
- WEB and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’”
- BSB There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”
- NKJV and there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring catastrophe on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their punishment.’ ”
- NASB and a remnant will not be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth—the year of their punishment.”
- NLT Not one of these plotters from Anathoth will survive, for I will bring disaster upon them when their time of punishment comes.”
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Quick answer
No survivors will remain in Anathoth when God's appointed day of judgment arrives.
Overview
The 'year of their visitation' is the set time when God comes to judge their sin. The completeness of the judgment underscores how seriously God regards the persecution of His prophet and the rejection of His word. Such warnings call all to take refuge in Christ before the final day of reckoning.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Jer 23:12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
- Jer 50:27Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
- Luke 19:44And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
- Mic 7:4The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
- Hos 9:7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
- Jer 6:9Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
- Isa 14:20–22Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
- Jer 8:12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
- Jer 5:29Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Jer 5:9Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Jer 46:21Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
- Jer 44:27Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
- Jer 48:44He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
- Jer 11:19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
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