Jeremiah 4:20

Disaster piles on disaster as the whole land is suddenly laid waste. It matters because it conveys the swift, total ruin that judgment brings.

Cross-references · 24

• Ps 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
• Matt 10:28Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
• Ezek 7:25–26Destruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none.
• Joel 1:15Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
• 2 Th 1:9who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
• Lam 3:47Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
• Ezek 14:21For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
• Jer 10:19–20Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious: but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”
• Jer 17:18Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
• Isa 13:6Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
• Lev 26:18“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
• Exod 33:5Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into the middle of you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”
• Lev 26:21“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
• Isa 33:20Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
• Lev 26:24then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
• Jer 4:6Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
• Isa 47:9But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
• Isa 54:2“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
• Num 16:21“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”
• Hab 3:7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
• Lam 2:6–9He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
• Num 16:45“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.
• Lev 26:28then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
• Ps 72:19Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.

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