If I announce that a certain nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed,
Parallel translations
- WEB At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
- KJV At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
- BSB At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
- NKJV The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it,
- NASB At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot it, to tear it down, or to destroy it;
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Quick answer
At any moment God may announce that a nation will be uprooted and destroyed. His word governs the fate of peoples.
Overview
God describes his sovereign right to decree judgment upon a nation, pulling it up and breaking it down. This echoes Jeremiah's commission to pluck up and break down (1:10). The verse sets up the principle that such announcements are not always unconditional but may turn on the nation's response.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Jer 1:10Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
- Jer 45:4“You shall tell him, Yahweh says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
- Jer 12:14–17Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
- Amos 9:8Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.
- Jonah 3:4Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
- Jer 25:9–14behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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