Jeremiah 22:5
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
In context
3 This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
4 For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
5 But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
6 For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
7 I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.
Jeremiah 22:5 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
- KJV King James Version
- But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
- WEB World English Bible
- But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says the LORD, “that this house will become a desolation.”’”
- ASV American Standard Version
- But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a desolation.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And if ye do not hear these words, By myself I have sworn — an affirmation of Jehovah, That this house is for a desolation.
- DBY Darby Translation
- But if ye will not hear these words, I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a waste.
- WBS Webster Bible
- But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.