Jeremiah 21:14 “I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kin…”

Jeremiah 21:14

I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

World English Bible

I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,’ says the LORD; ‘and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’”

American Standard Version

And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.

Geneva Bible 1599

But I will visite you according to the fruite of your workes, saith the Lord, and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall deuoure rounde about it.

Darby Translation

And I will visit you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.

Young's Literal Translation

And I have laid a charge against you, According to the fruit of your doings, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have kindled a fire in its forest, And it hath consumed — all its suburbs!

Bible in Basic English

I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.

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Cross references

“punish”

Jeremiah 9:25 Jeremiah 11:22 Isaiah 10:12 Isaiah 24:21

Jeremiah 9:25 · BSB

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—

Jeremiah 11:22 · BSB

So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

Isaiah 10:12 · BSB

So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.

Isaiah 24:21 · BSB

In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.

“according”

Jeremiah 32:19 Proverbs 1:31 Jeremiah 17:10 Jeremiah 6:29 Isaiah 3:10 Isaiah 3:11

Jeremiah 32:19 · BSB

the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

Proverbs 1:31 · BSB

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Jeremiah 17:10 · BSB

I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

Jeremiah 6:29 · BSB

The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.

Isaiah 3:10 · BSB

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

Isaiah 3:11 · BSB

Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

“in the”

Ezekiel 20:46–48 Jeremiah 22:7 Isaiah 37:24 Zechariah 11:1 Isaiah 10:18 Isaiah 10:19

Ezekiel 20:46–48 · BSB

“Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.

Jeremiah 22:7 · BSB

I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.

Isaiah 37:24 · BSB

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest o…

Zechariah 11:1 · BSB

Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!

Isaiah 10:18 · BSB

The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.

Isaiah 10:19 · BSB

The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.

“shall”

Jeremiah 52:13 2 Chronicles 36:19

Jeremiah 52:13 · BSB

He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

2 Chronicles 36:19 · BSB

Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau— declares the LORD— you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”

Read Jeremiah 21