Ezekiel 21:31

21:31 I will pour out my anger on you;

the fire of my fury I will blow on you.

I will hand you over to brutal men,

who are skilled in destruction.

Deuteronomy 28:36

28:36 The Lord will force you and your king ¹  whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

Deuteronomy 28:49-50

28:49 The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth ²  as the eagle flies, ³  a nation whose language you will not understand, 28:50 a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.

Deuteronomy 28:2

28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance ⁴  if you obey the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 24:4

24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry ⁵  her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. ⁶  You must not bring guilt on the land ⁷  which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Nehemiah 9:36-37

9:36 “So today we are slaves! In the very land you gave to our ancestors to eat its fruit and to enjoy ⁸  its good things – we are slaves! 9:37 Its abundant produce goes to the kings you have placed over us due to our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they see fit, ⁹  and we are in great distress!

Psalms 106:41

106:41 He handed them over to ¹⁰  the nations,

and those who hated them ruled over them.

Jeremiah 5:15-17

5:15 The Lord says, ¹¹  “Listen, ¹²  nation of Israel! ¹³ 

I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you.

It will be a nation that was founded long ago

and has lasted for a long time.

It will be a nation whose language you will not know.

Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.

5:16 All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. ¹⁴ 

Their arrows will send you to your grave. ¹⁵ 

5:17 They will eat up your crops and your food.

They will kill off ¹⁶  your sons and your daughters.

They will eat up your sheep and your cattle.

They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. ¹⁷ 

Their weapons will batter down ¹⁸ 

the fortified cities you trust in.

Jeremiah 39:6

39:6 There at Riblah the king of Babylon had Zedekiah’s sons put to death while Zedekiah was forced to watch. The king of Babylon also had all the nobles of Judah put to death.

[28:36]  ¹ tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”

[28:49]  ² tn Heb “from the end of the earth.”

[28:49]  ³ tn Some translations understand this to mean “like an eagle swoops down” (e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT), comparing the swift attack of an eagle to the attack of the Israelites’ enemies.

[28:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”

[24:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”

[24:4]  ⁶ sn The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.

[24:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).

[9:36]  ⁸ tn The expression “to enjoy” is not included in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[9:37]  ⁹ tn Heb “according to their desire.”

[106:41]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”

[5:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”

[5:15]  ¹² tn Heb “Behold!”

[5:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “house of Israel.”

[5:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “All of them are mighty warriors.”

[5:16]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “his quiver [is] an open grave.” The order of the lines has been reversed to make the transition from “nation” to “their arrows” easier.

[5:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “eat up.”

[5:17]  ¹⁷ tn Or “eat up your grapes and figs”; Heb “eat up your vines and your fig trees.”

[5:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “They will beat down with the sword.” The term “sword” is a figure of speech (synecdoche) for military weapons in general. Siege ramps, not swords, beat down city walls; swords kill people, not city walls.