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Jeremiah 21:14
I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses the inhabitants of Jerusalem who dwell above the valley and on the rocky plateau, responding to their boast that no enemy can breach their walls.
The words — The Hebrew verb פָּקַדְתִּי (paqadti) means “I will visit [judgment],” and the phrase כִּפְרִי מַעַלְלֵיכֶם (ki-peri ma‘alleykhem) translates literally to “according to the fruit of your deeds.”
The thread — The principle of divine recompense according to human action appears in Proverbs 1:31, where people consume the fruit of their own path, and Jeremiah 32:19, where God rewards each person according to his ways.
Why it lands — The text declares that God will personally execute judgment and ignite a consuming fire against the city, concluding that human arrogance cannot escape divine retribution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 3:10 Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
- Proverbs 1:31 So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- Jeremiah 32:19 the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
- 2 Chronicles 36:19 Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.
- Jeremiah 17:10 I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
- Jeremiah 52:13 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
- Isaiah 10:18 The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
- Jeremiah 9:25 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—
- Ezekiel 20:46 “Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.
- Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.