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Jeremiah 21:13
I will personally fight against the people in Jerusalem, that mighty fortress— the people who boast,“ No one can touch us here. No one can break in here.”
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Job 9:22
Innocent or wicked, it is all the same to God. That’s why I say,‘ He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
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Nahum 2:13
“ I am your enemy!” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.“ Your chariots will soon go up in smoke. Your young men will be killed in battle. Never again will you plunder conquered nations. The voices of your proud messengers will be heard no more.”
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Ezekiel 5:8
Therefore, I myself, the Sovereign Lord, am now your enemy. I will punish you publicly while all the nations watch.
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Nahum 3:5
“ I am your enemy!” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.“ And now I will lift your skirts and show all the earth your nakedness and shame.
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Ezekiel 21:19
“ Son of man, make a map and trace two routes on it for the sword of Babylon’s king to follow. Put a signpost on the road that comes out of Babylon where the road forks into two—
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Ezekiel 5:12
A third of your people will die in the city from disease and famine. A third of them will be slaughtered by the enemy outside the city walls. And I will scatter a third to the winds, chasing them with my sword.
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Isaiah 10:5
“ What sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger. I use it as a club to express my anger.
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Ecclesiastes 9:2
The same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether righteous or wicked, good or bad, ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive the same treatment as sinners, and people who make promises to God are treated like people who don’t.
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Leviticus 26:33
I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.
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Jeremiah 50:31
“ See, I am your enemy, you arrogant people,” says the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.“ Your day of reckoning has arrived— the day when I will punish you.
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Leviticus 26:25
I will send armies against you to carry out the curse of the covenant you have broken. When you run to your towns for safety, I will send a plague to destroy you there, and you will be handed over to your enemies.
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Ezekiel 14:21
“ Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How terrible it will be when all four of these dreadful punishments fall upon Jerusalem— war, famine, wild animals, and disease— destroying all her people and animals.
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Ezekiel 9:5-6
Then I heard the Lord say to the other men,“ Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity!Kill them all— old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin right here at the Temple.” So they began by killing the seventy leaders.
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Isaiah 34:5
And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens, it will fall upon Edom, the nation I have marked for destruction.
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Zechariah 13:7
“ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, the man who is my partner,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.“ Strike down the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn against the lambs.
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Jeremiah 51:25
“ Look, O mighty mountain, destroyer of the earth! I am your enemy,” says the Lord.“ I will raise my fist against you, to knock you down from the heights. When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of burnt rubble.
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Jeremiah 47:6-7
“ Now, O sword of the Lord, when will you be at rest again? Go back into your sheath; rest and be still.“ But how can it be still when the Lord has sent it on a mission? For the city of Ashkelon and the people living along the sea must be destroyed.”
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Exodus 15:9
“ The enemy boasted,‘ I will chase them and catch up with them. I will plunder them and consume them. I will flash my sword; my powerful hand will destroy them.’
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Deuteronomy 32:41-42
when I sharpen my flashing sword and begin to carry out justice, I will take revenge on my enemies and repay those who reject me.I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh— the blood of the slaughtered and the captives, and the heads of the enemy leaders.”’
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Ezekiel 21:9-11
“ Son of man, give the people this message from the Lord:“ A sword, a sword is being sharpened and polished.It is sharpened for terrible slaughter and polished to flash like lightning! Now will you laugh? Those far stronger than you have fallen beneath its power!Yes, the sword is now being sharpened and polished; it is being prepared for the executioner.
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Zephaniah 2:12
“ You Ethiopians will also be slaughtered by my sword,” says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 51:20
“ You are my battle ax and sword,” says the Lord.“ With you I will shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms.
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Jeremiah 15:2-4
And if they say to you,‘ But where can we go?’ tell them,‘ This is what the Lord says:“‘ Those who are destined for death, to death; those who are destined for war, to war; those who are destined for famine, to famine; those who are destined for captivity, to captivity.’“ I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the Lord.“ I will send the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, the vultures to devour, and the wild animals to finish up what is left.Because of the wicked things Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem, I will make my people an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Psalms 17:13
Arise, O Lord! Stand against them, and bring them to their knees! Rescue me from the wicked with your sword!
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Ezekiel 26:3
“ Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am your enemy, O Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the waves of the sea crashing against your shoreline.
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Ezekiel 14:17
“ Or suppose I were to bring war against the land, and I sent enemy armies to destroy both people and animals.