Jeremiah 21:12

God commands the house of David to execute justice and rescue the oppressed, or face unquenchable wrath. Right rule means defending the weak.

Cross-references · 40

• Isa 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
• Jer 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
• Prov 31:8–9Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
• Isa 1:31The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.
• Zech 7:9–11“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
• Jer 22:2–3saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.
• Zeph 3:5The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
• Nah 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
• Jer 36:7Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way; for great are the anger and fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”
• Jer 17:4And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”
• Jer 7:20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
• Ezek 20:47–48Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
• Jer 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
• Ezek 22:18–22“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
• Jer 23:19Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
• Luke 18:3–5And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
• Isa 7:13Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?
• Luke 1:69He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
• Lam 4:11The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
• Jer 22:15–17Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
• Ps 101:8Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
• Jer 5:14Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
• Rom 13:4For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.
• Lam 2:3–4In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
• Ezek 22:31So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
• Isa 7:2When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
• Mark 9:43–48If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
• Jer 21:5And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.
• Isa 31:1–2Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
• Job 29:17I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
• Lev 26:28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
• Ps 72:12–14For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
• Prov 24:11–12Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
• Ps 82:2–4“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
• Eccl 10:16–17Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
• Ps 72:1–4Of Solomon. Endow the king with Your justice, O God, and the son of the king with Your righteousness.
• Exod 18:13The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.
• Ezek 24:8–14In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’
• Isa 16:3–5“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
• Deut 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

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