If I announce that a certain nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed,

我何时论到一邦或一国说，要拔出、拆毁、毁坏；

我何时论到一邦或一国说，要拔出、拆毁、毁坏；

我何时论到一邦或一国说，要拔出、拆毁、毁坏；

当我宣布要铲除、推翻、毁灭哪一邦或哪一国的时候，

我什么时候宣布要拔出、拆毁、毁灭一邦或一国，

我何時論到一邦或一國說，要拔出、拆毀、毀壞；

我何時論到一邦或一國說，要拔出、拆毀、毀壞；

我何時論到一邦或一國說，要拔出、拆毀、毀壞；

當我宣佈要剷除、推翻、毀滅哪一邦或哪一國的時候，

我甚麼時候宣布要拔出、拆毀、毀滅一邦或一國，

我甚麼時候論到一邦或一國說，要拔除，要拆毁，要毁滅，

我論一族、或論一國之時、言欲拔之、毀之、翦滅之、

始我命邦國、必當翦滅、撥其根本、而彼邦國、悛改厥行、則我欲降之災、必不行焉。

如我言、某邦某國、當敗當毀當滅、

If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,

Suppose I announce that something will happen to a nation or kingdom. Suppose I announce that it will be pulled up by the roots. And I announce that it will be torn down and destroyed.

If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,

At one moment I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will uproot, tear down, and destroy it.

At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot it, to tear it down, or to destroy it;

The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it,

At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

At one moment I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will uproot, tear down, and destroy it.

[ At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy[ it];

There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.

At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

Today I appoint you to stand up against nations and kingdoms. Some you must uproot and tear down, destroy and overthrow. Others you must build up and plant.”

Now this is what the Lord says:“ I will uproot from their land all the evil nations reaching out for the possession I gave my people Israel. And I will uproot Judah from among them.But afterward I will return and have compassion on all of them. I will bring them home to their own lands again, each nation to its own possession.And if these nations truly learn the ways of my people, and if they learn to swear by my name, saying,‘ As surely as the Lord lives’( just as they taught my people to swear by the name of Baal), then they will be given a place among my people.But any nation who refuses to obey me will be uprooted and destroyed. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

I will gather together all the armies of the north under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whom I have appointed as my deputy. I will bring them all against this land and its people and against the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy you and make you an object of horror and contempt and a ruin forever.I will take away your happy singing and laughter. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard. Your millstones will fall silent, and the lights in your homes will go out.This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.“ Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the Lord.“ I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever.I will bring upon them all the terrors I have promised in this book— all the penalties announced by Jeremiah against the nations.Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people.”

“ Baruch, this is what the Lord says:‘ I will destroy this nation that I built. I will uproot what I planted.

“ I, the Sovereign Lord, am watching this sinful nation of Israel. I will destroy it from the face of the earth. But I will never completely destroy the family of Israel,” says the Lord.

On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds:“ Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!”