Leviticus 26:25
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25 And (A)I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities (B)I will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Numbers 14:12
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12 I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will (A)make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
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Ezekiel 5:17
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17 So I will send against you famine and (A)wild beasts, and they will bereave you. (B)Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’ ”
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Ezekiel 33:2
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2 “Son of man, speak to (A)the children of your people, and say to them: (B)‘When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their (C)watchman,
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Ezekiel 29:8
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8 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will bring (A)a sword upon you and cut off from you man and beast.
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Ezekiel 14:17
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17 “Or if (A)I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land,’ and I (B)cut off man and beast from it,
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Ezekiel 6:3
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3 and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: “Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and (A)I will destroy your [a]high places.
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- Ezekiel 6:3 Places for pagan worship
Jeremiah 29:17-18
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17 thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like (A)rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad. 18 And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I (B)will deliver them to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth—to be (C)a curse, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
Jeremiah 24:10
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10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are [a]consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ ”
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- Jeremiah 24:10 destroyed
Deuteronomy 32:25
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25 The sword shall destroy outside;
There shall be terror within
For the young man and virgin,
The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
Deuteronomy 28:21
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21 The Lord will make the [a]plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.
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- Deuteronomy 28:21 pestilence
Hebrews 10:28-30
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28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three (A)witnesses. 29 (B)Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, (C)counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, (D)and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, (E)“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” [a]says the Lord. And again, (F)“The Lord will judge His people.”
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- Hebrews 10:30 NU omits says the Lord
Luke 21:11
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11 And there will be great (A)earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
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Amos 4:10
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10 “I sent among you a plague (A)after the manner of Egypt;
Your young men I killed with a sword,
Along with your captive horses;
I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
Ezekiel 21:4-17
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4 Because I will cut off both righteous and wicked from you, therefore My sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh (A)from south to north, 5 that all flesh may know that I, the Lord, have drawn My sword out of its sheath; it (B)shall not return anymore.” ’ 6 (C)Sigh therefore, son of man, with [a]a breaking heart, and sigh with bitterness before their eyes. 7 And it shall be when they say to you, ‘Why are you sighing?’ that you shall answer, ‘Because of the news; when it comes, every heart will melt, (D)all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming and shall be brought to pass,’ says the Lord God.”
8 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 9 “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord!’ Say:
(E)‘A sword, a sword is sharpened
And also polished!
10 Sharpened to make a dreadful slaughter,
Polished to flash like lightning!
Should we then make mirth?
It despises the scepter of My son,
As it does all wood.
11 And He has given it to be polished,
That it may be handled;
This sword is sharpened, and it is polished
To be given into the hand of (F)the slayer.’
12 “Cry and wail, son of man;
For it will be against My people,
Against all the princes of Israel.
Terrors including the sword will be against My people;
Therefore (G)strike your thigh.
13 “Because it is (H)a testing,
And what if the sword despises even the scepter?
(I)The scepter shall be no more,”
says the Lord God.
14 “You therefore, son of man, prophesy,
And (J)strike your hands together.
The third time let the sword do double damage.
It is the sword that slays,
The sword that slays the great men,
That enters their (K)private chambers.
15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates,
That the heart may melt and many may stumble.
Ah! (L)It is made bright;
It is grasped for slaughter:
16 “Swords(M)[b] at the ready!
Thrust right!
Set your blade!
Thrust left—
Wherever your [c]edge is ordered!
17 “I also will (N)beat My fists together,
And (O)I will cause My fury to rest;
I, the Lord, have spoken.”
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- Ezekiel 21:6 Emotional distress, lit. the breaking of your loins
- Ezekiel 21:16 Lit. Sharpen yourself! or Unite yourself!
- Ezekiel 21:16 Lit. face
Ezekiel 20:37
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37 “I will make you (A)pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the (B)covenant;
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Lamentations 2:21
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21 “Young(A) and old lie
On the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the (B)sword;
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered and not pitied.
Jeremiah 15:2-4
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2 And it shall be, if they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
(A)“Such as are for death, to death;
And such as are for the sword, to the sword;
And such as are for the famine, to the famine;
And such as are for the (B)captivity, to the captivity.” ’
3 “And I will (C)appoint over them four forms of destruction,” says the Lord: “the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, (D)the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. 4 I will hand them over to (E)trouble, to all kingdoms of the earth, because of (F)Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 14:12-13
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12 (A)When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and (B)when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But (C)I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.”
13 (D)Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you [a]assured (E)peace in this place.’ ”
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- Jeremiah 14:13 true
Jeremiah 9:16
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16 I will (A)scatter them also among the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. (B)And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.”
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Isaiah 34:5-6
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5 “For (A)My sword shall be bathed in heaven;
Indeed it (B)shall come down on Edom,
And on the people of My curse, for judgment.
6 The (C)sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
It is made [a]overflowing with fatness,
With the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For (D)the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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- Isaiah 34:6 Lit. fat
Psalm 94:1
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God the Refuge of the Righteous
94 O Lord God, (A)to whom vengeance belongs—
O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!
Psalm 78:62-64
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62 (A)He also gave His people over to the sword,
And was furious with His inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men,
And (B)their maidens were not given in marriage.
64 (C)Their priests fell by the sword,
And (D)their widows made no lamentation.
2 Samuel 24:15
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15 So (A)the Lord sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died.
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Judges 2:14-16
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14 (A)And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He (B)delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and (C)He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they (D)could no longer stand before their enemies. 15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for calamity, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had (E)sworn to them. And they were greatly distressed.
16 Nevertheless, (F)the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
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