Jeremiah Chapter 21 verse 14 Holy Bible
And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
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I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.
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And I will visit you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
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But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
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I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
read chapter 21 in WEB
And I have laid a charge against you, According to the fruit of your doings, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have kindled a fire in its forest, And it hath consumed -- all its suburbs!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - In the forest thereof; i.e. in the forest of houses (comp. Jeremiah 22:6, 7).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof.--The "forest" thus referred to may be either literally the woods, then covering a larger surface than in later times, at Kirjath-jearim (Psalm 132:6; 1Samuel 7:2), or the wood of the lone wilderness of Ziph (1Samuel 23:15), or the valley of Rephaim (2Samuel 5:22), or, figuratively, the royal palace, which, from its cedar columns (1Kings 7:2; 1Kings 10:21), was known as "the house of the forest of Lebanon." (Comp. the comparison of the king's house to "Gilead and the head of Lebanon," in Jeremiah 22:6.) The desolation wrought by an invading army such as that of Nebuchadnezzar, cutting down the "choice fir-trees of Lebanon and the forest of Carmel" (2Kings 19:23), showed itself in this destruction of forests in its most conspicuous form, and explains the comparative scarcity of trees in modern Palestine. So Assur-nasirpal narrates, in the history of his conquests, how he had cut down the pine, box, cypress, and other trees of the forest (Records of the Past, iii. p. 74). . . .
