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I will kindle a fire in your forests that will consume everything around you.&#8217&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/21.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />And I myself will punish you for your sinfulness, says the LORD. I will light a fire in your forests that will burn up everything around you.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/jeremiah/21.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/21.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’ ”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/21.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/21.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,” says the LORD; “I will kindle a fire in its forest, And it shall devour all things around it.” ’ ”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/21.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“But I will punish you according to the results of your deeds,” declares the LORD, “And I will kindle a fire in its forest So that it may devour all its surroundings.”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/21.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220But I will punish you according to the results of your deeds,&#8221 declares the LORD, &#8220And I will kindle a fire in its forest That it may devour all its environs."&#8217&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/21.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“But I shall punish you according to the results of your deeds,” declares the LORD, “And I shall kindle a fire in its forest That it may devour all its environs.”’” <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/21.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />But I will punish you according to the results of your deeds,” declares Yahweh, “And I will kindle a fire in its forest That it may devour all its surroundings.”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/21.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“But I will punish you in accordance with the [appropriate] consequences of your decisions <i>and</i> your actions,” says the LORD. “I will kindle a fire in your forest, And it will devour all that is around you.”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/21.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I will punish you according to what you have done — this is the LORD’s declaration. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around it.’ ”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/21.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I will punish you according to what you have done— this is the LORD&#8217s declaration. I will kindle a fire in its forest that will consume everything around it.&#8217&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/21.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/21.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />and I will punish you as you deserve. I'll set your palace on fire, and everything around you will go up in smoke. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/21.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/21.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />" 'I will punish you because of the evil things you have done,' " declares the LORD. " 'I will start a fire in your forests, and it will burn up everything around you.'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/21.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But I will punish you for what you have done. I will set your palace on fire, and the fire will burn down everything around it. I, the LORD, have spoken." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/21.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />But I'll punish you according to what you have done," declares the LORD. "I'll start a fire in her forest, and it will consume everything around her."'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/21.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/21.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,' says the LORD. 'I will set fire to your palace; it will burn up everything around it.'" <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/21.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings," says the LORD; "and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her."'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/21.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things around it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/21.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/21.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And I have laid a charge against you, "" According to the fruit of your doings,” "" A declaration of YHWH, "" “And I have kindled a fire in its forest, "" And it has consumed all its outskirts!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/21.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And I have laid a charge against you, According to the fruit of your doings, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have kindled a fire in its forest, And it hath consumed -- all its suburbs!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/21.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And I reviewed over you according to the fruit of your doings, says Jehovah: and I kindled a fire in her forest, and it consumed all round about her.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/21.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But I will visit upon you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof: and it shall devour all things round about it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/21.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />But I will visit against you according to the fruit of your intentions, says the Lord. And I will kindle a fire in its forest. And it shall devour everything around it.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/21.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I will punish you—oracle of the LORD— as your deeds deserve! I will kindle a fire in its forest that shall devour all its surroundings. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/21.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the LORD; I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all that is around it.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/21.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the LORD, and I will kindle a fire in its villages, and it shall devour all things round about it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/21.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />I shall adjudicate for you according to the fruits of your works, says LORD JEHOVAH, and I shall send fire in its cities, and it shall devour all of them around it” <div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/21.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, Saith the LORD; And I will kindle a fire in her forest, And it shall devour all that is round about her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/21.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=6213" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/21.htm">Message to the House of David</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">13</span>Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?” <span class="reftext">14</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/6485.htm" title="6485: ū·p̄ā·qaḏ·tî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs) -- To attend to, visit, muster, appoint. A primitive root; to visit; by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.">I will punish</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ă·lê·ḵem (Prep:: 2mp) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">you</a> <a href="/hebrew/6529.htm" title="6529: kip̄·rî (Prep-k:: N-msc) -- Fruit. From parah; fruit.">as your deeds deserve,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4611.htm" title="4611: ma·‘al·lê·ḵem (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- A deed, practice. From alal; an act."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5002.htm" title="5002: nə·’um- (N-msc) -- Utterance. From na'am; an oracle.">declares</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3341.htm" title="3341: wə·hiṣ·ṣat·tî (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjPerf-1cs) -- To kindle, burn. A primitive root; to burn or set on fire; figuratively, to desolate.">I will kindle</a> <a href="/hebrew/784.htm" title="784: ’êš (N-cs) -- A fire. A primitive word; fire.">a fire</a> <a href="/hebrew/3293.htm" title="3293: bə·ya‘·rāh (Prep-b:: N-msc:: 3fs) -- From an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure; a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb.">in your forest</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: wə·’ā·ḵə·lāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3fs) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">that will consume</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">everything</a> <a href="/hebrew/5439.htm" title="5439: sə·ḇî·ḇe·hā (Adv:: 3fs) -- Circuit, round about. Or cbiybah; from cabab; a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly around.">around you.’”</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/3-10.htm">Isaiah 3:10-11</a></span><br />Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor. / Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/18-30.htm">Ezekiel 18:30</a></span><br />Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/12-2.htm">Hosea 12:2</a></span><br />The LORD has a charge to bring against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/3-2.htm">Amos 3:2</a></span><br />“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/7-13.htm">Micah 7:13</a></span><br />Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/2-6.htm">Romans 2:6-8</a></span><br />God “will repay each one according to his deeds.” / To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life. / But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/6-7.htm">Galatians 6:7-8</a></span><br />Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. / The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-10.htm">2 Corinthians 5:10</a></span><br />For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/22-12.htm">Revelation 22:12</a></span><br />“Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/24-12.htm">Proverbs 24:12</a></span><br />If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/59-18.htm">Isaiah 59:18</a></span><br />So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/7-3.htm">Ezekiel 7:3-4</a></span><br />The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations. / I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/18-20.htm">Ezekiel 18:20</a></span><br />The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/obadiah/1-15.htm">Obadiah 1:15</a></span><br />For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/16-27.htm">Matthew 16:27</a></span><br />For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, said the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.</p><p class="hdg">punish.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/9-25.htm">Jeremiah 9:25</a></b></br> Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all <i>them which are</i> circumcised with the uncircumcised;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/11-22.htm">Jeremiah 11:22</a></b></br> 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:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/10-12.htm">Isaiah 10:12</a></b></br> Wherefore it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.</p><p class="hdg">according.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/6-29.htm">Jeremiah 6:29</a></b></br> The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/17-10.htm">Jeremiah 17:10</a></b></br> I the LORD search the heart, <i>I</i> try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, <i>and</i> according to the fruit of his doings.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/32-19.htm">Jeremiah 32:19</a></b></br> Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes <i>are</i> open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:</p><p class="hdg">in the.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/22-7.htm">Jeremiah 22:7</a></b></br> And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast <i>them</i> into the fire.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/10-18.htm">Isaiah 10:18,19</a></b></br> And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10,11</a></b></br> Yet the defenced city <i>shall be</i> desolate, <i>and</i> the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof… </p><p class="hdg">shall.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/52-13.htm">Jeremiah 52:13</a></b></br> And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great <i>men</i>, burned he with fire:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/36-19.htm">2 Chronicles 36:19</a></b></br> And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/21-13.htm">Affirmation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-9.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-13.htm">Charge</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-12.htm">Consume</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-18.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/21-13.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-10.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-10.htm">Deserve</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-27.htm">Devour</a> <a href="/jeremiah/21-12.htm">Doings</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-32.htm">Environs</a> <a href="/jeremiah/21-12.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-8.htm">Forest</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-9.htm">Forests</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-10.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-4.htm">Keeping</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-27.htm">Kindle</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-4.htm">Kindled</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-22.htm">Laid</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-10.htm">Punish</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-12.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-10.htm">Results</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-26.htm">Round</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/31-19.htm">Suburbs</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-5.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/27-4.htm">Woodlands</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/22-5.htm">Affirmation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-37.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Charge</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-22.htm">Consume</a> <a href="/jeremiah/24-10.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-5.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-22.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/jeremiah/26-16.htm">Deserve</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30-16.htm">Devour</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-2.htm">Doings</a> <a href="/jeremiah/33-13.htm">Environs</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-7.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/jeremiah/26-18.htm">Forest</a> <a href="/ezekiel/34-25.htm">Forests</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/jeremiah/38-25.htm">Keeping</a> <a href="/jeremiah/33-18.htm">Kindle</a> <a href="/jeremiah/44-6.htm">Kindled</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-3.htm">Laid</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-34.htm">Punish</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-12.htm">Punishment</a> <a href="/romans/5-16.htm">Results</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-2.htm">Round</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-28.htm">Suburbs</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-14.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/joshua/17-15.htm">Woodlands</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 21</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-1.htm">Zedikiah sends to Jeremiah to enquire the event of Nebuchadnezzar's war.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-3.htm">Jeremiah foretells a hard siege and miserable captivity.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-8.htm">He counsels the people to fall to the Chaldeans;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/21-11.htm">and upbraids the King's house.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In this context, it signifies God's direct intervention in response to the actions of the people. The concept of divine retribution is central to the prophetic literature, emphasizing that God is just and will hold individuals and nations accountable for their actions. This phrase underscores the certainty of divine justice, reminding believers that God is not indifferent to sin.<p><b>according to the fruit of your deeds</b><br />The "fruit" metaphor is frequently used in Scripture to denote the outcomes or consequences of one's actions. The Hebrew word for "fruit" is "פְּרִי" (peri), which implies that actions have tangible results. This phrase highlights the biblical principle of sowing and reaping, as seen in <a href="/galatians/6-7.htm">Galatians 6:7-8</a>. It serves as a warning that the moral and ethical choices of individuals and nations will yield corresponding consequences, reinforcing the call to live righteously.<p><b>declares the LORD</b><br />The phrase "declares the LORD" is a prophetic formula used to assert the authority and certainty of the message. The Hebrew word for "declares" is "נְאֻם" (ne'um), which conveys a solemn pronouncement. This phrase assures the audience that the message is not merely the prophet's opinion but a divine revelation. It emphasizes the reliability and unchangeable nature of God's word, encouraging believers to trust in His promises and warnings.<p><b>I will kindle a fire in your forest</b><br />The imagery of fire is a powerful symbol of judgment and purification in the Bible. The Hebrew word for "kindle" is "יָקַד" (yaqad), meaning to ignite or set ablaze. The "forest" can symbolize the strength and pride of a nation, often representing its resources and defenses. This phrase suggests that God's judgment will penetrate even the most fortified and seemingly secure areas, illustrating the inescapable nature of divine retribution.<p><b>that will consume everything around you</b><br />The Hebrew root for "consume" is "אָכַל" (akal), which means to eat or devour. This phrase paints a vivid picture of total destruction, indicating that the judgment will be comprehensive and leave nothing untouched. It serves as a sobering reminder of the seriousness of turning away from God and the devastating consequences of sin. For believers, it is a call to repentance and a return to faithful obedience, trusting in God's mercy and grace.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/21.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(14) <span class= "bld">I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof.</span>--The "forest" thus referred to may be either literally the woods, then covering a larger surface than in later times, at Kirjath-jearim (<a href="/psalms/132-6.htm" title="See, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.">Psalm 132:6</a>; <a href="/1_samuel/7-2.htm" title="And it came to pass, while the ark stayed in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.">1Samuel 7:2</a>), or the wood of the lone wilderness of Ziph (<a href="/1_samuel/23-15.htm" title="And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.">1Samuel 23:15</a>), or the valley of Rephaim (<a href="/2_samuel/5-22.htm" title="And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.">2Samuel 5:22</a>), or, figuratively, the royal palace, which, from its cedar columns (<a href="/1_kings/7-2.htm" title="He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.">1Kings 7:2</a>; <a href="/1_kings/10-21.htm" title="And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.">1Kings 10:21</a>), was known as "the house of the forest of Lebanon." (Comp. the comparison of the king's house to "Gilead and the head of Lebanon," in <a href="/jeremiah/22-6.htm" title="For thus said the LORD to the king's house of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.">Jeremiah 22:6</a>.) The desolation wrought by an invading army such as that of Nebuchadnezzar, cutting down the "choice fir-trees of Lebanon and the forest of Carmel" (<a href="/2_kings/19-23.htm" title="By your messengers you have reproached the LORD, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.">2Kings 19:23</a>), showed itself in this destruction of forests in its most conspicuous form, and explains the comparative scarcity of trees in modern Palestine. So Assur-nasirpal narrates, in the history of his conquests, how he had cut down the pine, box, cypress, and other trees of the forest (<span class= "ital">Records of the Past, iii.</span> p. 74). . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/21.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 14.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">In the forest thereof</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> in the forest of houses (comp. <a href="/jeremiah/22-6.htm">Jeremiah 22:6, 7</a>). <p> <p> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">I will punish</span><br /><span class="heb">וּפָקַדְתִּ֧י</span> <span class="translit">(ū·p̄ā·qaḏ·tî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6485.htm">Strong's 6485: </a> </span><span class="str2">To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·lê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">as your deeds deserve,</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּפְרִ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(kip̄·rî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6529.htm">Strong's 6529: </a> </span><span class="str2">Fruit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">declares</span><br /><span class="heb">נְאֻם־</span> <span class="translit">(nə·’um-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5002.htm">Strong's 5002: </a> </span><span class="str2">An oracle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the LORD.</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I will kindle</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהִצַּ֤תִּי</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hiṣ·ṣat·tî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3341.htm">Strong's 3341: </a> </span><span class="str2">To burn, set on fire, to desolate</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a fire</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵשׁ֙</span> <span class="translit">(’êš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_784.htm">Strong's 784: </a> </span><span class="str2">A fire</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in your forest</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּיַעְרָ֔הּ</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ya‘·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3293.htm">Strong's 3293: </a> </span><span class="str2">A copse of bushes, a forest, honey in the comb</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that will consume</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאָכְלָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’ā·ḵə·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">everything</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל־</span> <span class="translit">(kāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">around</span><br /><span class="heb">סְבִיבֶֽיהָ׃</span> <span class="translit">(sə·ḇî·ḇe·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5439.htm">Strong's 5439: </a> </span><span class="str2">A circle, neighbour, environs, around</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you.’”</span><br /><span class="heb">ס</span> <span class="translit">(s)</span><br /><span class="parse">Punctuation<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/21-14.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 21:14 I will punish you according to (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/21-13.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 21:13"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 21:13" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/22-1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 22:1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 22:1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>