Jeremiah 21:7

21:7 Then¹ I, the Lord, promise that² I will hand over King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and any of the people who survive the war, starvation, and disease. I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will slaughter them with the sword. He will not show them any mercy, compassion, or pity.’

Deuteronomy 29:20

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger³ will rage⁴ against that man; all the curses⁵ written in this scroll will fall upon him⁶ and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.⁷

Isaiah 27:11

27:11 When its branches get brittle,⁸ they break;

women come and use them for kindling.⁹

For these people lack understanding,¹⁰

therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;

the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

Ezekiel 5:11

5:11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare¹¹ you.

Ezekiel 7:4

7:4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare¹² you.¹³ For I will hold you responsible for your behavior,¹⁴ and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices.¹⁵ Then you will know that I am the Lord!

Ezekiel 7:9

7:9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare¹⁶ you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable,¹⁷ and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking you.¹⁸

Ezekiel 8:18

8:18 Therefore I will act with fury! My eye will not pity them nor will I spare¹⁹ them. When they have shouted in my ears, I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 9:5

9:5 While I listened, he said to the others,²⁰ “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare²¹ anyone!

Ezekiel 9:10

9:10 But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare²² them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”²³

Ezekiel 24:14

24:14 “‘I the Lord have spoken; judgment²⁴ is coming and I will act! I will not relent, or show pity, or be sorry!²⁵ I will judge you²⁶ according to your conduct²⁷ and your deeds, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

¹tn Heb “And afterward.”

²tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”

³tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

⁴tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

⁵tn Heb “the entire oath.”

⁶tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

⁷tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

⁸tn Heb “are dry” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

⁹tn Heb “women come [and] light it.” The city is likened to a dead tree with dried up branches that is only good for firewood.

¹⁰tn Heb “for not a people of understanding [is] he.”

¹¹tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

¹²tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

¹³tn The pronoun “you” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

¹⁴tn “I will set your behavior on your head.”

¹⁵tn Heb “and your abominable practices will be among you.”

¹⁶tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

¹⁷tn Heb “According to your behavior I will place on you.”

¹⁸tn The MT lacks “you.” It has been added for clarification.

¹⁹tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

²⁰tn Heb “to these he said in my ears.”

²¹tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

²²tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

²³tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.” The same expression occurs in 1 Kgs 8:32; Ezek 11:21; 16:43; 22:31.

²⁴tn Heb “it”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁵tn Or perhaps, “change my mind.”

²⁶tc Some medieval Hebrew mss and the major ancient versions read a first person verb here. Most Hebrew mss read have an indefinite subject, “they will judge you,” which could be translated, “you will be judged.”

²⁷tn Heb “ways.”