Jeremiah 12:17

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Summary

Jeremiah 12:17

But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

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Bible References

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‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.

“For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish,
And the nations will be utterly ruined.

Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.”

dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

For this is contained in Scripture:
“Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a

precious corner stone,

And he who believes in

Him will not be

disappointed.”

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Thus says the Lord concerning all My wicked neighbors who strike at the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel, “Behold I am about to uproot them from their land and will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

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

As I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to overthrow, to destroy and to bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the Lord.

‘But it was plucked up in fury;
It was cast down to the ground;
And the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its

strong branch was torn off

So that it withered;
The fire consumed it.

The first was like a lion and had the wings of an eagle. I kept looking until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man; a human mind also was given to it.

But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, for his sovereignty will be uprooted and given to others besides them.