Jeremiah 21:14
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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.’”
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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.
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
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.
He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
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 of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.
The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.
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.