Jeremiah 22:5

WEB

⁵But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says the LORD, “that this house will become a desolation.”’”

KJV

⁵But if ye will not hear^[+] these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

BSB

⁵But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”

FBV

⁵But if you refuse to obey what I say, then I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that this palace will be turned into rubble.

Extra References

Amos 6:8

⁸“The Lord GOD has sworn by himself,” says the LORD, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

Genesis 22:16

¹⁶and said, “‘I have sworn by myself,’ says the LORD, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

²⁷But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.”’”

Hebrews 6:13

¹³For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

Deuteronomy 32:40-42

⁴⁰For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever, ⁴¹if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me. ⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”

Isaiah 1:20

²⁰but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.”

Jeremiah 39:8

⁸The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the people’s houses with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 26:6-9

⁶then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.’”

⁷The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the LORD’s house. ⁸When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die! ⁹Why have you prophesied in the LORD’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant’?” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in the LORD’s house.

Jeremiah 7:13-14

¹³Now, because you have done all these works,” says the LORD, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer; ¹⁴therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

Micah 3:12

¹²Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.