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'Uproot' in the Bible

For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.

Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

"I, the Lord, also have something to say concerning the wicked nations who surround my land and have attacked and plundered the land that I gave to my people as a permanent possession. I say: 'I will uproot the people of those nations from their lands and I will free the people of Judah who have been taken there.

But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,'" says the Lord.

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

I will look after their welfare and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land and will not uproot them.

If you will just stay in this land, I will build you up. I will not tear you down. I will firmly plant you. I will not uproot you. For I am filled with sorrow because of the disaster that I have brought on you.

The Lord told Jeremiah, "Tell Baruch, 'The Lord says, "I am about to tear down what I have built and to uproot what I have planted. I will do this throughout the whole earth.

I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

But he said, 'No, since in gathering the weeds you may uproot the wheat with them.

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