Jeremiah 22:7

World English Bible (WEB)

I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

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5 But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says the LORD, “that this house will become a desolation.”’”

6 For the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.

7 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

8 “Many nations will pass by this city, and they will each ask his neighbor, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this great city?’

9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’”

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Jeremiah 22:7 in every translation

WEB World English Bible: I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
KJV King James Version: And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
BSB Berean Standard Bible: 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.
ASV American Standard Version: And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: And I have separated for thee destroyers, Each with his weapons, And they have cut down the choice of thy cedars, And have cast them on the fire.
DBY Darby Translation: And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down the choice of thy cedars, and cast [them] into the fire.
WBS Webster Bible: And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.