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Jeremiah 30:16

Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

KJV

Propterea omnes qui comedunt te devorabuntur, et universi hostes tui in captivitatem ducentur : et qui te vastant vastabuntur, cunctosque prædatores tuos dabo in prædam.

Vulgate

καὶ καύσω πῦρ ἐν τείχει Δαμασκοῦ καὶ καταφάγεται ἄμφοδα υἱοῦ Ἁδέρ.

LXX

Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that despoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

ASV

לָ/כֵ֞ן כָּל אֹכְלַ֨יִ/ךְ֙ יֵאָכֵ֔לוּ וְ/כָל צָרַ֥יִ/ךְ כֻּלָּ֖/ם בַּ/שְּׁבִ֣י יֵלֵ֑כוּ וְ/הָי֤וּ שֹׁאסַ֨יִ/ךְ֙ לִ/מְשִׁסָּ֔ה וְ/כָל בֹּזְזַ֖יִ/ךְ אֶתֵּ֥ן לָ/בַֽז

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בַֽז
bz
noun · 25×
בֹ֣ז
bz
verb · 43×
ו
v
verb · 107×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יֵּ֥לֶךְ
ylk
verb · 1038×
ךְ֙
k
pronoun · 1×
כֵ֗ן
kn
adjective · 767×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
verb · 811×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
מְשִׁסָּ֖ה
mshsh
noun · 6×
שְּׁבִ֣י
shby
noun · 48×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Exod 23:22 — But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
  • Ezek 25:3 — And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was de
  • Ezek 26:2 — Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
  • Ezek 29:6 — And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
  • Ezek 35:5 — Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
  • Hab 2:16 — Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
  • Isa 14:2 — And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose c
  • Isa 14:2 — And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose c
  • Isa 33:1 — Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt
  • Isa 41:11 — Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
  • Isa 47:5 — Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
  • Isa 54:15 — Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
  • Isa 54:17 — No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteous
  • Jer 2:3 — Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 10:25 — Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation d
  • Jer 12:14 — Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house o
  • Jer 25:12 — And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will mak
  • Jer 25:26 — And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
  • Jer 30:20 — Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
  • Jer 50:7 — All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
  • Jer 50:17 — Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
  • Jer 50:28 — The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
  • Jer 50:33 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
  • Jer 51:34 — Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cas
  • Joel 3:7 — Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
  • Joel 3:8 — And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
  • Lam 1:21 — They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall
  • Lam 4:21 — Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
  • Mic 4:11 — Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
  • Mic 7:10 — Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
  • Nah 1:8 — But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
  • Ps 129:5 — Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
  • Ps 137:8 — O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
  • Rev 13:10 — He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
  • Zech 1:14 — So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
  • Zech 2:8 — For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
  • Zech 12:1 — The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
  • Zech 12:2 — Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
  • Zech 14:2 — For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the resid
  • Zeph 2:8 — I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.