Jeremiah 1:10
1:10 Know for certain that
I hereby give you the authority to announce to nations and kingdoms that they will be
uprooted and torn down, destroyed and demolished, rebuilt and firmly planted.”
Jeremiah 4:7
4:7 Like a lion that has come up from its lair
the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base.
He is coming out to lay your land waste.
Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.
Jeremiah 25:15-29
Judah and the Nations Will Experience God’s Wrath
25:15 So the Lord, the God of Israel, spoke to me in a vision. “Take this cup from my hand. It is filled with the wine of my wrath. Take it and make the nations to whom I send you drink it.
25:16 When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.”
25:17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand. I made all the nations to whom he sent me drink the wine of his wrath.
25:18 I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. Such is already becoming the case!
25:19 I made all of these other people drink it: Pharaoh, king of Egypt; his attendants, his officials, his people,
25:20 the foreigners living in Egypt; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines, the people of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, the people who had been left alive from Ashdod;
25:21 all the people of Edom, Moab, Ammon;
25:22 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea;
25:23 the people of Dedan, Tema, Buz, all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples;
25:24 all the kings of Arabia who live in the desert;
25:25 all the kings of Zimri; all the kings of Elam; all the kings of Media;
25:26 all the kings of the north, whether near or far from one another; and all the other kingdoms which are on the face of the earth. After all of them have drunk the wine of the Lord’s wrath, the king of Babylon must drink it.
25:27 Then the Lord said to me, “Tell them that the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can’t get up. For I will send wars sweeping through you.’
25:28 If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the Lord who rules over all says ‘You most certainly must drink it!
25:29 For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own. So how can you possibly avoid being punished? You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the Lord who rules over all, affirm it!’
Genesis 10:5
10:5 From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to its language, according to their families, by their nations.
Numbers 23:9
23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see them;
from the hills I watch them.
Indeed, a nation that lives alone,
and it will not be reckoned among the nations.
Zechariah 2:8
2:8 For the
Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory
he has sent me to the nations that plundered you – for anyone who touches you touches the pupil
of his
eye.
Romans 3:29
3:29 Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!