Jeremiah 15:7 Cross References - NSB

⁷ »I will separate them with a winnowing shovel at the city gates. I will make them childless. I will destroy my people because they will not change their ways.

¹⁸ »Cursed will be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

³² »Your sons and daughters will be dragged off to a foreign country. And you will stand there helpless. Even if you watch for them until you go blind, you will never see them again.

⁴¹ »Even your infant sons and daughters will be taken as prisoners of war.

⁵³ »Because of the hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade, you will eat the flesh of your own children, the sons and daughters, whom Jehovah your God has given you. ⁵⁴ »The kindest and most sensitive man among you will become stingy toward his brother, the wife he loves, and the children he still has left. ⁵⁵ »He will give none of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all that he has left. These are hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade of all your cities. ⁵⁶ »The kindest and most sensitive woman among you, so sensitive and tender that she would not even step on an ant, will become stingy toward the husband she loves or toward her own son or daughter.

⁴ This is not so for the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

¹³ The people did not turn back to him who struck them, or seek Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁶ »You will winnow them. The wind will pick them up and a gale will blow them away. But you will rejoice in Jehovah and glory in the Holy One of Israel.

¹¹ Then it will be said to these people and to Jerusalem: »A hot wind from the heights will blow in the desert toward my people. It will not be a wind that winnows or cleanses. ¹² »It will be a stronger wind than that. It will come from me. Now, I will pass sentence on them.

³ Jehovah looks for faithfulness. He struck you, but you paid no attention. He crushed you, but you refused to learn. You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins.

⁴ »Say to them: ‘This is what Jehovah says: »When someone falls, he gets back up. When someone turns away from me, he returns.«’« ⁵ »The people of Jerusalem turned away from me without ever returning. They still cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

²¹ Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the market places.

²¹ Therefore, give their children over to famine and deliver them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

² »I will send foreigners to destroy Babylon like a wind that blows straw away. When that day of destruction comes, they will attack from every side and leave the land bare.

²¹ »Speak to the house of Israel. Tell them Jehovah says: ‘I am about to profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and your delight. Your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

²⁵ »As for you, O son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their pride, the desire of their eyes and their heart's delight, their sons and their daughters,

¹² »Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them until no man is left. Yes, woe to them even when I depart from them! ¹³ »I have seen Ephraim planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.« ¹⁴ Give them, O Jehovah what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. ¹⁵ »All Ephraim's wickedness began in Gilgal. I hated the people there. I will force them out of my Temple because of their wickedness. I will not love them anymore. All their officials are rebellious. ¹⁶ »The people of Ephraim are like sick plants. Their roots are dried up. They have no fruit. Even if they were to have children, I would kill their dear children.« ¹⁷ My God will reject them because they refused to listen to him. They will wander among the nations.

¹⁰ »I sent a plague among you just as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword and I captured your horses. I made the stench of your camp come up even into your nostrils and yet you have not returned to me,« said Jehovah. ¹¹ »I overthrew your cities as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire. Yet you have not returned to me,« said Jehovah. ¹² »This is what I will do to you, O Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

⁴ »Do not be like your fathers! The former prophets declared: ‘Jehovah of Hosts said, I implore you, return from your evil ways, and from your wicked activities! But they did not listen, they paid no attention to me,’« said Jehovah.

¹² »His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out.«