Bible Cross References
I will fan
Jeremiah 4:11
The time is coming when the people of Jerusalem will be told that a scorching wind is blowing in from the desert toward them. It will not be a gentle wind that only blows away the chaff---
Jeremiah 4:12
the wind that comes at the LORD's command will be much stronger than that! It is the LORD himself who is pronouncing judgment on his people.
Jeremiah 51:2
I will send foreigners to destroy Babylonia like a wind that blows straw away. When that day of destruction comes, they will attack from every side and leave the land bare.
Psalm 1:4
But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.
Isaiah 41:16
You will toss them in the air; the wind will carry them off, and they will be scattered by the storm. Then you will be happy because I am your God; you will praise me, the holy God of Israel.
Matthew 3:12
He has his winnowing shovel with him to thresh out all the grain. He will gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out."
bereave
Jeremiah 9:21
Death has come in through our windows and entered our palaces; it has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the marketplaces.
Jeremiah 18:21
But now, LORD, let their children starve to death; let them be killed in war. Let the women lose their husbands and children; let the men die of disease and the young men be killed in battle.
Deuteronomy 28:18
"The LORD will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.
Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.
Deuteronomy 28:41
You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.
Deuteronomy 28:53-56
53
"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
54
Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
56
Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
Hosea 9:12-17
12
But even if they did bring up children, I would take them away and not leave one alive. When I abandon these people, terrible things will happen to them."
13
LORD, I can see their children being hunted down and killed.
14
What shall I ask you to do to these people? Make their women barren! Make them unable to nurse their babies!
15
The LORD says, "All their evildoing began in Gilgal. It was there that I began to hate them. And because of the evil they have done, I will drive them out of my land. I will not love them any more; all their leaders have rebelled against me.
16
The people of Israel are like a plant whose roots have dried up and which bears no fruit. They will have no children, but even if they did, I would kill the children so dear to them."
17
The God I serve will reject his people, because they have not listened to him. They will become wanderers among the nations.
children
Ezekiel 24:21
to give you Israelites this message: You are proud of the strength of the Temple. You like to look at it and to visit it, but the LORD is going to profane it. And the younger members of your families who are left in Jerusalem will be killed in war.
Ezekiel 24:25
The LORD said, "Now, mortal man, I will take away from them the strong Temple that was their pride and joy, which they liked to look at and to visit. And I will take away their sons and daughters.
since
Jeremiah 5:3
Surely the LORD looks for faithfulness. He struck you, but you paid no attention; he crushed you, but you refused to learn. You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins.
Jeremiah 8:4
The LORD told me to say to his people, "When someone falls down, doesn't he get back up? If someone misses the road, doesn't he turn back?
Jeremiah 8:5
Why then, my people, do you turn away from me without ever turning back? You cling to your idols and refuse to return to me.
Isaiah 9:13
The people of Israel have not repented; even though the LORD Almighty has punished them, they have not returned to him.
Amos 4:10-12
10
"I sent a plague on you like the one I sent on Egypt. I killed your young men in battle and took your horses away. I filled your nostrils with the stink of dead bodies in your camps. Still you did not come back to me.
11
"I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Those of you who survived were like a burning stick saved from a fire. Still you did not come back to me," says the LORD.
12
"So then, people of Israel, I am going to punish you. And because I am going to do this, get ready to face my judgment!"
Zechariah 1:4
Do not be like your ancestors. Long ago the prophets gave them my message, telling them not to live evil, sinful lives any longer. But they would not listen to me or obey me.