1"If you will return, Israel," says the Lord, "if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;

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Joel 2:12, Joel 2:12, Jeremiah 3:22, Jeremiah 3:22, Genesis 35:2

2and you shall swear, 'As the Lord lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."

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Isaiah 65:16, Isaiah 65:16, Jeremiah 9:24, Genesis 22:18, Jeremiah 9:24

3For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.

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Hosea 10:12, Hosea 10:12, Luke 8:14, Luke 8:7, Luke 8:14

4Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

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Deuteronomy 10:16, Deuteronomy 10:16, Romans 2:28, Romans 2:29, Romans 2:28

5Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, 'Blow the trumpet in the land!' Cry aloud and say, 'Assemble yourselves! Let us go into the fortified cities!'

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Jeremiah 8:14, Jeremiah 8:14, Joshua 10:20, Jeremiah 6:1, Joshua 10:20

6Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Do not wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."

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Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 1:13, Jeremiah 1:15, Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 1:13

7A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

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Jeremiah 5:6, Isaiah 1:7, Ezekiel 26:7, Ezekiel 26:10, Jeremiah 2:15

8For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord hasn't turned back from us.

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Isaiah 22:12, Jeremiah 6:26, Isaiah 22:12, Jeremiah 6:26, Isaiah 32:11

9"It shall happen at that day," says the Lord, "that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder."

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Isaiah 29:9, Isaiah 29:10, Isaiah 22:3, Isaiah 22:5, Ezekiel 13:9

10Then I said, "Ah, Lord God! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, 'You shall have peace;' whereas the sword reaches to the heart."

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Jeremiah 5:12, 2 Thessalonians 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 2:12, Jeremiah 5:12, 2 Thessalonians 2:9

11At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

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Ezekiel 17:10, Hosea 13:15, Ezekiel 17:10, Hosea 13:15, Jeremiah 9:1

12a full wind from these shall come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them."

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Jeremiah 1:16, Jeremiah 1:16, Ezekiel 5:8, Ezekiel 5:8, Ezekiel 7:8

13Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

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Isaiah 19:1, Isaiah 19:1, Isaiah 66:15, Isaiah 66:15, Lamentations 4:19

14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

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James 4:8, James 4:8, Isaiah 55:7, Acts 8:22, Isaiah 55:7

15For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:

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Jeremiah 8:16, Jeremiah 8:16, Joshua 20:7, Judges 20:1, Jeremiah 6:1

16"Tell the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, 'Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.

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Jeremiah 5:15, Ezekiel 21:22, Jeremiah 5:15, Ezekiel 21:22, Isaiah 39:3

17As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,'" says the Lord.

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Jeremiah 5:23, Jeremiah 5:23, 2 Kings 25:1, 2 Kings 25:4, 2 Kings 25:1

18"Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."

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Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 2:19, Psalms 107:17, Psalms 107:17, Jeremiah 2:17

19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

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Habakkuk 3:16, Habakkuk 3:16, Isaiah 22:4, Isaiah 16:11, Isaiah 22:4

20Destruction on destruction is proclaimed; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.

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Psalms 42:7, Psalms 42:7, Ezekiel 7:25, Ezekiel 7:26, Joel 1:15

21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

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Jeremiah 4:19, 2 Chronicles 36:6, 2 Chronicles 36:7, 2 Chronicles 36:17, 2 Chronicles 36:10

22"For my people are foolish, they do not know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

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1 Corinthians 14:20, 1 Corinthians 14:20, Romans 16:19, Romans 16:19, Jeremiah 5:21

23I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

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Matthew 24:29, Matthew 24:29, Mark 13:24, Mark 13:25, Mark 13:24

24I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.

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Ezekiel 38:20, Ezekiel 38:20, Nahum 1:5, Nahum 1:6, Isaiah 5:25

25I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.

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Zephaniah 1:2, Zephaniah 1:3, Zephaniah 1:2, Zephaniah 1:3, Jeremiah 12:4

26I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the Lord, before his fierce anger.

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Psalms 107:34, Psalms 107:34, Isaiah 5:9, Isaiah 5:10, Deuteronomy 29:23

27For thus says the Lord, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

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Jeremiah 46:28, Jeremiah 5:18, Jeremiah 5:10, Jeremiah 46:28, Jeremiah 5:18

28For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not relented, neither will I turn back from it."

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Numbers 23:19, Numbers 23:19, Isaiah 50:3, Jeremiah 12:4, Hosea 4:3

29Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.

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Isaiah 2:19, Isaiah 2:21, Jeremiah 4:7, Isaiah 2:19, Isaiah 2:21

30You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you dress yourselves with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; your lovers despise you, they seek your life.

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2 Kings 9:30, 2 Kings 9:30, Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:19, Lamentations 1:2

31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, "Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers."

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Isaiah 1:15, Lamentations 1:17, Isaiah 1:15, Lamentations 1:17, Jeremiah 13:21