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Jeremiah 21:14

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Sin;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Nebuchadnezzar;   Punishment;   Reward-Punishment;   Sin;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Forests;   Punishment of the Wicked, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fire (kindle);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Four;   Zedekiah (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ethics;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will punish you according to what you have done—
Hebrew Names Version
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 shall devour all that is round about her.
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.
English Standard Version
I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the Lord ; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her."
New American Standard Bible
"But I will punish you according to the results of your deeds," declares the LORD, "And I will kindle a fire in its forest So that it may devour all its surroundings."'"
New Century Version
But I will give you the punishment you deserve, says the Lord . I will start a fire in your forests that will burn up everything around you!'"
Amplified Bible
"But I will punish you in accordance with the [appropriate] consequences of your decisions and your actions," says the LORD. "I will kindle a fire in your forest, And it will devour all that is around you."'"
World English Bible
I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But I wil 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.
Legacy Standard Bible
But I will punish you according to the results of your deeds," declares Yahweh,"And I will kindle a fire in its forestThat it may devour all its surroundings."'"
Berean Standard Bible
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.'"
Contemporary English Version
and I will punish you as you deserve. I'll set your palace on fire, and everything around you will go up in smoke.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will punish you," says Adonai , "as your deeds deserve. I will set its forest on fire, and it will devour everything around 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.
Easy-to-Read Version
"You will get the punishment you deserve. I will start a fire in your forests that will completely burn everything around you." This message is from the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the LORD, and I will kindle a fire in its villages, and it shall devour all things round about it.
Good News Translation
But I will punish you for what you have done. I will set your palace on fire, and the fire will burn down everything around it. I, the Lord , have spoken."
Lexham English Bible
And I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds," declares Yahweh, "And I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it will devour all its surroundings."'"
Literal Translation
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Jehovah. And I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I will vyset you (saieth the LORDE) because off the wickednes off youre invencions, and will kyndle soch a fyre in youre wod, as shall cosume all, that is aboute you.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
King James Version (1611)
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forrest thereof, and it shall deuoure all things round about it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I wyll visite you saith the Lord, because of the wickednesse of your inuentions, and wyll kindle suche a fire in your wood, as shall consume all that is about you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
English Revised Version
And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal visite on you bi the fruyt of youre studies, seith the Lord; and Y schal kyndle fier in the forest therof, and it schal deuoure alle thingis in the cumpas therof.
Update Bible Version
And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
Webster's Bible Translation
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 around it.
New English Translation
But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,' says the Lord . ‘I will set fire to your palace; it will burn up everything around it.'"
New King James Version
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings," says the LORD; "I will kindle a fire in its forest, And it shall devour all things around it.""'
New Living Translation
And I myself will punish you for your sinfulness, says the Lord . I will light a fire in your forests that will burn up everything around you.'"
New Life Bible
I will punish you for what has come of what you have done," says the Lord. "I will start a fire among your trees, and it will destroy all that is around it."'"
New Revised Standard
I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord ; I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all that is around it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yet will I bring punishment upon you according to the fruit of your doings, Declareth Yahweh, - and will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But I will visit upon 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.
Revised Standard Version
I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the LORD; 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!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But I will punish you according to the results of your deeds," declares the LORD, "And I will kindle a fire in its forest That it may devour all its environs."'"

Contextual Overview

8 And to this people you are to say, The Lord has said, See, I put before you the way of life and the way of death. 9 He who keeps in this town will come to his death by the sword and through need of food and through disease; but he who goes out and gives himself up to the Chaldaeans who are shutting you in, will go on living, and will keep his life safe. 10 For my face is turned to this town for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire. 11 About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord; 12 O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings. 13 See, I am against you, you who are living on the rock of the valley, says the Lord; you who say, Who will come down against us? or who will get into our houses? 14 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

punish: Heb. visit upon, Jeremiah 9:25, Jeremiah 11:22, Isaiah 10:12, Isaiah 24:21, *marg.

according: Jeremiah 6:29, Jeremiah 17:10, Jeremiah 32:19, Proverbs 1:31, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8

in the: Jeremiah 22:7, Isaiah 10:18, Isaiah 10:19, Isaiah 27:10, Isaiah 27:11, Isaiah 37:24, Ezekiel 20:46-48, Zechariah 11:1

shall: Jeremiah 52:13, 2 Chronicles 36:19

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 17:27 - then Jeremiah 22:6 - surely Jeremiah 50:32 - kindle Lamentations 4:11 - kindled Ezekiel 20:47 - I will kindle Micah 7:13 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 16:7
And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
Genesis 19:27
And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:
Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.
Genesis 21:7
And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.
Genesis 21:23
Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.
Genesis 21:25
But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.
Genesis 21:31
So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
Genesis 21:33
And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.
Genesis 22:3
And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.
Genesis 22:19
Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,

saith the Lord,.... The situation of their city, and the strength of its fortifications, however sufficient they might be thought to keep out an enemy from annoying them; yet it was impossible to hinder the Lord's coming among them, as he here threatens to do; and "visit" them, as the word signifies, in a way of wrath and justice, according to the demerit of their sins, expressed by "the fruit of their doings"; their punishment was the reward of their unrighteousness, the effect of their sinful practices; and, though this was dreadful and terrible, they could not but own it was just and equitable:

and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof; not in the forest of Lebanon, but in the city of Jerusalem; whose houses stood as thick as trees in a forest, and which many of them, at least the most stately, might be built or ceiled with cedars from Mount Lebanon and its forest; though some understand this of the cities and towns about Jerusalem; and so the Targum renders it, "in its cities"; and the Syriac version, "its towns"; but these seem rather meant in the following clause:

and it shall devour all things round about it; the mountains and trees upon them, the cities and towns adjacent.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The forest - This suggested to the Jew the idea of everything grand and stately.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 21:14. I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof — I will send destruction into its centre, that shall spread to every part of the circumference, and so consume the whole.

The beginning of the thirty-fourth chapter should follow here. See the arrangement on Jeremiah 21:1.


 
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