Chapter Thirteen
“I will . . . ” (God’s Declared Intentions)
All hope was lost!

Jer. 1:15 For, lo,   I will   call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
Jer. 1:16 And   I will   utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, . . .
Jer. 4:5 Declare ye in   Judah, and publish in   Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
Jer. 4:6 . . . for   I will   bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Jer. 4:27 For thus hath the LORD said,   The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Jer. 5:15 Lo,   I will   bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: . . .  
Jer. 5:16 Their quiver   is   as an open sepulchre, they   are   all mighty men.
Jer. 5:17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread,   which   thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jer. 6:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts,   They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine:  
Jer. 6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in:   I will   pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with   him that is   full of days.
Jer. 6:12 And their houses shall be turned unto others,   with their   fields and wives together: for   I willstretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
Jer. 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold,   I will   bring evil upon this people, . . .
Jer. 6:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold,   I will   lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
Jer. 6:22   Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
Jer. 6:23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they   are   cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
Jer. 7:14 Therefore   will I   do unto   this   house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
Jer. 7:15 And   I will   cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren,   even   the whole seed of Ephraim.
Jer. 7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray   them   away.
Jer. 7:34 Then   will I   cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Jer. 8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither   I have   driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jer. 8:10 Therefore   will I   give their wives unto others,   and   their fields to them that shall inherit   them:  
Jer. 8:12 . . . therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jer. 8:13   I will   surely consume them, saith the LORD: . . .
Jer. 8:17 For, behold,   I will   send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which   will   not   be   charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
Jer. 9:7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold,   I will   melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Jer. 9:11 And   I will   make Jerusalem heaps,   and   a den of dragons; and   I will   make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jer. 9:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,   I will   feed them,   even   this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Jer. 9:16   I will   scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and   I will   send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Jer. 10:18 For thus saith the LORD, Behold,   I will   sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find   it so.
Jer. 11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold,   I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
Jer. 11:22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold,   I will   punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
Jer. 11:23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for   I will   bring evil upon the men of Anathoth,   even   the year of their visitation.
Jer. 13:9 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner   will I   mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jer. 13:13 . . . Thus saith the LORD, Behold,   I will   fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
Jer. 13:14 And   I will   dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD:   I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Jer. 13:24 Therefore   will I   scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Jer. 14:12 When they fast,   I will   not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation,   I will   not accept them: but   I will   consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Jer. 15:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me,   yet   my mind   couldnot   be   toward this people:   cast   them   out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Jer. 15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as   are   for death, to death; and such as   are   for the sword, to the sword; and such as   are   for the famine, to the famine; and such as   are   for the captivity, to the captivity.
Jer. 15:3 And   I will   appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Jer. 15:4 And   I will   cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for   that   which he did in Jerusalem.
Jer. 15:6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore   will I   stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jer. 15:7 And   I will   fan them with a fan in the gates of the land;   I will   bereave   them   of children,   I willdestroy my people,   since   they return not from their ways.
Jer. 15:9 . . . and the residue of them   will I   deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
Jer. 15:14 And   I will   make   thee   to pass with thine enemies into a land   which   thou knowest not:  
Jer. 16:5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for   I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD,   even   lovingkindness and mercies.
Jer. 16:6   Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall   menlament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
Jer. 16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,   I will   cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Jer. 16:13 Therefore   will I   cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not,   neither   ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where   I will not show you favour.
Jer. 16:18 And first   I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; . . .  
Jer. 17:3 O my mountain in the field,   I will   give thy substance   and   all thy treasures to the spoil,   and   thy high places for sin,   throughout all thy borders.
Jer. 17:4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and   I will   cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: . . .  
Jer. 17:27 . . . then   will I   kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour   the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Jer. 18:17   I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Jer. 19:3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,   I will   bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
Jer. 19:7 And   I will   make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and   I will   cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases   will I   give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Jer. 19:8 And   I will   make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
Jer. 19:9 And   I will   cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, . . .  
Jer. 19:11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so   will I   break this people and this city, as   one   breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury   them   in Tophet, till   there be   no place to bury.
Jer. 19:12 Thus   will I   do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, . . .  
Jer. 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
Jer. 19:15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,   I will   bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
Jer. 20:4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold,   I will   make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold   it: and   I will   give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
Jer. 20:5 Moreover   I will   deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah   will I   give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.