Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
I begin
General references
Bible References
I begin
Jeremiah 49:12
For thus says the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk; and are you he that shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it.
Proverbs 11:31
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed on the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Ezekiel 9:6
Slay utterly old and young, both maidens, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the elders who were before the house.
Ezekiel 38:21
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, says the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
Obadiah 1:16
For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had never been.
Luke 23:31
For if they do these things with a green tree, what shall be done with the dry?
1 Peter 4:17
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins with us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Ye shall
Jeremiah 30:11
For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet will I not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in just measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
Jeremiah 46:28
Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD: for I am with you; for I will make a complete end of all the nations where I have driven you: but I will not make a complete end of you, but correct you in measure; yet will I not leave you entirely unpunished.
Proverbs 11:21
Though they join hand to hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the descendants of the righteous shall be delivered.
Proverbs 17:5
Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
I will
Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
Ezekiel 38:21
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, says the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
Zechariah 13:7
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is close to me, says the LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
General references
Deuteronomy 30:7
And the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies, and on them that hate you, who persecuted you.
Proverbs 11:31
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed on the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Jeremiah 30:16
Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and they that plunder you shall be plunder, and all that prey upon you will I make a prey.
Luke 23:31
For if they do these things with a green tree, what shall be done with the dry?