2 Kings 21:14 Cross References - NSB

¹⁴ »‘I will discard the rest of my heritage. I will give them into the hands of their enemies. They will take their property and their goods for themselves.

¹⁷ »‘I will condemn you so that you will go down in defeat in front of your enemies. Those who hate you will be your rulers. You will run away even when no one is chasing you.

³⁶ »‘I will fill those who are left in the land of their enemies with despair. The sound of a windblown leaf will make them run. They will run away and fall, but no one will be chasing them. ³⁷ »‘They will stumble over each other. Yet no one will be after them. They will not be able to stand up to their enemies. ³⁸ »‘They will be destroyed among the nations. The land of their enemies will devour them.

²⁶ »I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that you will soon utterly perish from off the land you possess the other side of the Jordan. You will not prolong your days upon it, but will be destroyed. ²⁷ »Jehovah will scatter you among the nations. You will become few in number among the heathen, where Jehovah will lead you.

²⁵ »Jehovah will cause you to be stricken before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and flee seven ways from them. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

³¹ »Your cattle will be killed while you watch. You will not get to eat any of the meat. Your donkeys and sheep will be stolen. No one will be around to force your enemies to give them back. ³² »Your sons and daughters will be dragged off to a foreign country. And you will stand there helpless. Even if you watch for them until you go blind, you will never see them again. ³³ »A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow. You will receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.

⁴⁸ »You will serve your enemies whom Jehovah will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

¹⁷ »‘My anger will be kindled against them in that day. I will abandon them and hide my face from them. They will be consumed by many evils and troubles. They will say in that day: ‘Is it because our God is not among us that these evils have come upon us?’

¹⁴ The anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel. He delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them to their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. ¹⁵ Wherever they went the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil. For Jehovah had sworn to them and as Jehovah had sworn they were greatly distressed.

⁴ »‘The Assyrian emperor sent his chief official to insult the living God. May Jehovah your God hear these insults and punish those who spoke them. So pray to God for those of our people who survive.’«

³⁰ »The remnant in Judah who survives will flourish like plants that send roots deep into the ground and produce fruit. ³¹ »There will be a remnant of people in Jerusalem and on Mount Zion who will survive. Jehovah is determined to make this happen.

² Jehovah sent raiding parties of Babylonians, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah as Jehovah predicted through his servants the prophets.

² Azariah went to Asa and said: »Listen to me Asa and all you men from Judah and Benjamin. Jehovah is with you when you are with him. If you will dedicate your lives to serve him, he will accept you. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

¹⁶ They mocked God’s messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them. ¹⁷ So he had the Babylonian king attack them and execute their best young men in their holy temple. He did not spare the best men or the unmarried women, the old people or the sick people. God handed all of them over to him.

²⁷ »So you gave them up into the hands of their enemies who were cruel to them. In the time of their trouble, when they prayed to you, you listened to them from heaven. In your great mercy you gave them saviors, who made them free from the hands of their enemies. ²⁸ »When they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their enemies who ruled over them. When they came back and prayed to you, you listened to them from heaven; again and again, in your mercy, you gave them salvation. ²⁹ »You admonished them so that you might make them come back again to your law. Their hearts were lifted up, and they paid no attention to your orders. They went against your life giving decisions and turned their backs on you. They were stubborn and did not listen. ³⁰ »You put up with them for years. You admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they did not listen. So you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands. ³¹ »Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace (loving-kindness) and mercy. ³² »Now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be respected, who keeps faith and mercy, do not let his trouble seem small to you. It has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day. ³³ »You have been in the right in everything that happened to us. You have been true to us, but we have done evil! ³⁴ »Our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not obeyed your Law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them. ³⁵ »They have not been your servants in their kingdom! In all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them they have not turned away from their evil doing. ³⁶ »Today, we are servants! As for the land you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it! ³⁷ »And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins. They have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

¹ O Jehovah, I have come to you for protection; never let me be defeated! ² You are righteous, help me and rescue me. Listen to me and save me! ³ You are my secure shelter and a strong fortress to protect me. You are my refuge and defense. ⁴ My God, rescue me from wicked people, from the power of cruel and evil people. ⁵ Lord Jehovah, I put my hope in you. I have trusted in you since I was young. ⁶ I have relied on you all my life. You have protected me since the day I was born. I will always praise you. ⁷ My life has been an example to many, because you have been my strong defender.

²⁸ Jehovah loves justice, and he will not abandon his godly ones. They will be kept safe forever, but the descendants of the wicked will be destroyed.

³⁸ But you have despised, rejected, and become angry with your anointed one. ³⁹ You have refused to recognize the covenant to your servant and have thrown his crown into the dirt. ⁴⁰ You have broken through all his walls and have laid his fortified cities in ruins. ⁴¹ Everyone who passed by robbed him. He has become the object of his neighbors' scorn. ⁴² You lifted up the right hand of his enemies and made all of his adversaries rejoice. ⁴³ You even took his sword out of his hand and failed to support him in battle. ⁴⁴ You put an end to his splendor and hurled his throne to the ground. ⁴⁵ You cut short the days of his youth and covered him with shame.

⁴⁰ Jehovah burned with anger against his own people. He was disgusted with those who belonged to him. ⁴¹ He handed them over to other nations, and those who hated them ruled them. ⁴² Their enemies oppressed them and made them subject to their power. ⁴³ He rescued them many times, but they continued to plot rebellion against him and to sink deeper because of their sin.

⁶ »I send him against a godless nation. I commission him against the people of my fury to capture booty and to seize plunder, and to trample them down like mud (clay) in the streets.

⁷ Jehovah says: »I have abandoned Israel. I have rejected my chosen nation. I have given the people I love into the power of their enemies.

³³ Jehovah said to me: »Jeremiah, when one of my people or a prophet or a priest asks you, what is Jehovah’s message? You are to say: ‘You are a burden to Jehovah, and he is going to get rid of you.’

⁵ Her enemies are at ease and her foes have become her masters. Jehovah (YHWH) sends her sorrow because of the great number of her sins. Young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.

¹⁰ The hand of her enemies is stretched out over all her desired things. She sees the nations come into her holy place. Whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

²⁰ Why have we gone from your memory forever? Why have you turned away from us for so long?

² The virgin of Israel has fallen. She will not rise again. She has been thrown down upon her own land. There is none to raise her up.