Jeremiah 21:12
O house of David, this is what the Lord says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Note Execute: Heb. Judge
House of David, the Lord says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
O house of David, thus saith Jehovah, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- house
- Isaiah 7:2, 13; Luke 1:69
- Execute
- Heb. Judge.
- Jeremiah 5:28; Jeremiah 22:2, 3, 15–17; Jeremiah 23:5; 2 Samuel 8:15; Psalm 72:1–4, 12–14; Psalm 82:2–4; Isaiah 1:17; Isaiah 16:3–5; Isaiah 31:1, 2; Zechariah 7:9–11
- morning
- Exodus 18:13; Psalm 101:8; Ecclesiastes 10:16, 17; Zephaniah 3:5
- deliver
- Job 29:17; Psalm 82:4; Proverbs 24:11, 12; Proverbs 31:8, 9; Isaiah 1:17; Luke 18:3–5; Romans 13:4
- lest
- Jeremiah 21:5; Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 5:14; Jeremiah 17:4; Jeremiah 23:19; Jeremiah 36:7; Leviticus 26:28; Deuteronomy 32:22; Lamentations 2:3, 4; Lamentations 4:11; Ezekiel 20:47, 48; Ezekiel 22:18–22, 31; Ezekiel 24:8–14; Nahum 1:6; Zephaniah 1:18
- none
- Jeremiah 7:20; Isaiah 1:31; Mark 9:43–48