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Isaiah

"If ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword." 1:20

I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies." 1:24

"The destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed." 1:28

"The LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah ... bread, and ... water." 3:1

"Thy men shall fall by the sword." 3:24-25

After God "washed away the filth" from the women and killed the men, he set up "a cloud and smoke by day" and a "flaming fire by night." 4:4-5

God will kill those who despise his word and fail to follow his laws. Their carcasses will be "torn in the midst of the streets." 5:24-25

If you associate or gird yourself, God will break you in pieces. 8:9

God will have no mercy on the widows and children of hypocrites. 9:17

God will make every man kill his brother and then force him to eat "the flesh of his own arm." 9:19-20

God will "smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked." 11:4

Some day God will have his "mighty ones ... destroy the whole land." 13:3-5

On God's day he will kill sinners with great anger, wrath, and cruelty. Those who die will have their faces consumed by flames. 13:6-9

If God can find you, he will "thrust you through," smash your children "to pieces" before your eyes, and rape your wife. He will have no mercy, but will even kill your little children. 13:15-18

God will slaughter children "for the iniquity of their fathers." 14:21

After God destroys Moab, the rivers will be red with blood. He will send lions to eat any survivors. 15:9

The God of Peace will set brother against brother and kingdom against kingdom. Then he'll make the survivors heed the counsel of "wizards," and subject them to a "cruel lord." 19:2-4

The Apocalypse of Isaiah: God will destroy the earth, burning everyone and every living thing alive (except maybe a few men). 24:1-6

"And the people shall ... be burned in the fire." 33:12

"Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?" 33:14

God is furious at everyone and is ready to kill them all. Or as Isaiah so delicately puts it: "Their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood." 34:2-3

"My sword shall be bathed in heaven ... it shall come down ... upon the people of my curse." 34:5

"The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness ... and a great slaughter." 34:6

"Their land shall be soaked with blood." 34:7

"For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance." 34:8

"The streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch." 34:9

"It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste ... for ever and ever." 34:10

"The LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it." 36:10

I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."
God will cause Sennacherib to be killed by the sword. (See verse 38 where Sennacherib is killed by his own sons while praying.) 37:7

"Sennacherib ... departed, and ... as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword."
God made the sons murder their father. (See verse 7.) 37:37-38

An angel of God kills 185,000 men. "And when they [those killed by the angel?] arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead men." 37:36

God will "go forth as a mighty man" who cries and roars, and "will cry like a travailing woman." After he tires of roaring and crying he'll "destroy and devour." What a guy. 42:13

God makes Egypt, Ethiopia, and Seba pay for Israel's sins. He says that he likes Israel better than any other country so he's willing to sacrifice other countries for the Israel's sake. 43:3-4

No astrologer, stargazer, or prognosticator will be able to save those that God plans to burn to death. 47:13-14

"The Lord ... will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans." 48:14

"I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine." 49:26

"I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst."
God brags about the strangest things. 50:2

"The heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner." (God plans to destroy the universe.) 51:6

"I will ... trample them in my fury; and their blood ... will stain all my raiment." (God's clothes will get stained with the blood of humans.) 63:2-6

"God's servants" will eat, drink, and be merry; everyone else will be hungry, thirsty, and ashamed -- until God kills them, that is. 65:13-16

"Ye are they that forsake the LORD ... Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter." 65:11-12

God will "plead with all flesh" with fire and sword, "and the slain of the Lord shall be many." 66:15-16

Don't worship incorrectly or eat swine flesh (like ham or bacon) or God will have to kill you. 66:17

"They shall ... look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall t heir fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh." 66:24

Jeremiah

God tries to "correct" people by killing their children. 2:30

Circumcise the foreskin of your heart or God will burn you to death. 4:4

"I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction." 4:6

"The lion is come up from his thicket ... and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant." 4:7

Lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us." 4:8

What was once fruitful is now barren. Birds have fled, people are gone, towns are in ruins. All "by his (God's) fierce anger." 4:25-26

God tries to reform people by tormenting them and then wonders why it doesn't work. 5:3

God will send lions, wolves, and leopards to tear people to pieces.5:6

God will burn the people to death for discovering his non-existence. 5:14

God again talks of bringing a foreign nation to destroy his chosen ones and their lands. 5:15-17

God just can't hold in his fury any longer. He will kill everyone: husbands and wives, children and old people. 6:11

God will punish the men by taking away their property, including their wives, and giving it to others. 6:12

God plans to kill pretty much everyone: fathers and sons, family, friends, and neighbors. God plans to kill them all after laying a stumbling block before them. 6:21

God will send soldiers from the north that will kill everyone and have no mercy. 6:22-23

God will pour out his anger on both man and beast. Not even the trees will be spared from his wrath. And the ground itself will burn forever. 7:20

God will feed the people to the birds and the beasts, "and none shall fray them away." 7:33

God will cover the earth with dead bodies that will not be buried. "They shall be for dung upon the face of the earth." 8:2

People will choose to kill themselves, rather than be killed by their vicious God. 8:3

God will give the people bad food and water, and then kill them with a sword. 9:15-16

God will kill children and young men, and the dead bodies "shall fall as dung .... and none shall gather them." 9:21-22

"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised." I guess that'd include just about everyone -- well, all the men anyway. 9:25-26

Jeremiah prays for the destruction of people and families that don't call on God's name. 10:25

God "will bring evil upon" people from which they will not be able to escape. And if they cry out to him for help, he will not help them. 11:11

God forbids others from praying for his victims. Such prayers would go unanswered anyway, he says, because he "will not hear them in their time of trouble." 11:14

God will punish the people by killing their young men in war and starving their children to death. 11:22

Jeremiah asks God to drag away his enemies like "sheep for the slaughter." 12:3

God delivered his people "into the hand of her enemies." He "hates" his "dearly beloved" people and plans to feed them to the birds. 12:7-9

God's sword will devour" everyone until "no flesh shall have peace." 12:12

If any nation does not listen to God, he "will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation." 12:17

God plans to make everyone in the kingdom drunk and then "dash the fathers and the sons together." The merciful God of peace vows to "not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them." 13:12-14

God tells Jeremiah not to pray for the people. God has decided to kill them all and he doesn't want to be talked out of it. 14:11

God will ignore the peoples' prayers, and kill them all with war, starvation, and disease. 14:12

God will destroy by famine and sword those who are misled by the prophets, as well as the prophets themselves. 14:15-16

God tells Jeremiah not to bother praying for the people. Even if Moses and Samuel (and Jesus?) were to ask him to reconsider, he wouldn't. He's going to kill everybody and nobody can stop him! 15:1

God has it all planned out. He'll kill some with the sword, some with famine, and he'll feed the rest to the dogs and birds. Why will he do these terrible things? Because of something a former king did. 15:2-4

God again threatens Jerusalem with mass destruction. Here are some of the highlights: He will kill children, make more widows than there are grains of sand, terrorize cities, and then kill the survivors. 15:7-9

"A fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you." 15:14

God tells Jeremiah not to get married or have children, because he's going to kill everyone (mothers and daughters, fathers and sons). They all "shall die of grievous deaths," and that shall neither "be lamented" nor buried, but "shall be as dung upon the face of the earth." For he has removed peace, "lovingkindness," and mercy from the people. 16:1-7

God will kill children if their parents worship other gods. 16:10-11

If you don't honor the Sabbath, God will burn you to death unquenchable fire. 17:27

God admits that he does evil things to people. 18:11

Jeremiah asks God to kill the young men in war and the children by starvation. 18:21

God will do so much evil to the people that whoever hears of it will have their ears tingle. 19:3

God will make parents eat their own children, "and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend." 19:7-9

God will break those who worship other gods as though they were made of clay, killing so many that there will not be enough room to bury them all. 19:11-13

"Thus saith the LORD ... 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." 19:15

Jeremiah prophesies his rival's death (along with his famly and friends). 20:4-6

God himself will fight and kill everyone in fury "with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm." 21:5

"I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence." 21:6

God will deliver Zedekiah and those that survive the famine, disease, and war into Nebuchadrezzar's hand, and "he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. 21:7

God tells the Judeans to either surrender to the Babylonians and become their slaves or die. "Behold, I am against thee." No kidding. 21:9-13

God will have Jeconiah's enemies kill him and his mother and then ensure that he die without leaving any sons. 22:25-30

God promises to kill everyone by war, starvation, and disease. 24:10

Because the people of Judah were unfaithful to him, God will send the king of Babylon (Nebuchadrezzar) to destroy Jerusalem and enslave Judah. 25:6-11

God will force "all the kingdoms of the world" to drink "and be drunken." Then he'll kill "all the inhabitants of the earth" with a sword. 25:15-29

God is really getting into all of this killing. He roars, he mightily roars, and shouts. He "pleads with all flesh" while an whirlwind roars and a noise can be heard everywhere on earth. 25:30-32

God will kill so many people that the entire earth will be covered with their dead bodies. No one is to mourn them or even bury them; "they shall be dung upon the ground." 25:33-39

God will destroy "the peaceable habitations" and make the land desolate "because of his fierce anger." 25:37-38

Anyone who disobeys King Nebuchadnezzar will be punished "with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand." 27:8

God kills Hananiah for disagreeing with Jeremiah. 28:16-17

God will send his usual blessings upon his people: "the sword, the famine, and the pestilence." He "will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil." 29:17-18

God will kill those who refuse listen to his prophets. 29:19

God will deliver Ahab and Zedekiah into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar "and he shall slay them before your eyes" and Ahab will be "roasted in the fire." 29:21-22

"Thus saith the LORD ... concerning this city [Jerusalem]...It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence." 32:36

God litters the ground "with the dead bodies of men" that he has killed in his anger and fury. 33:5

To punish the people for refusing to free their slaves, God over-reacts (just a tad) by threatening to send the sword, pestilence, and famine, saying he'll feed their dead bodies to the fowls and beasts of the earth. 34:17-20

All those who move to Egypt will die by the sword, famine, or pestilence. None "shall escape from the evil" that comes directly from God. 42:15-18, 22

God is not finished with Judah. He'll bring more evil upon them. Even those Jews that flee to Egypt will not be spared. God will hunt them down and kill them all with war, famine, and disease. 44:11-13

"I will watch over them for evil, and not for good." So begins another pronouncement of death and destruction on his chosen people. 44:27-29

God says he will bring evil upon all flesh. 45:5

"I ... will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof." 46:8

The day of the Lord will be "a day of vengeance" On that day God's sword will become drunk with blood. 46:10

"The sword shall devour round about thee." 46:14

"Why are thy valiant men swept away? ... because the Lord ... made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another." 46:15-16

God plans to drown the Philistines in a flood, and "all the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl." 47:2

God plans to kill just about everybody. "No city shall escape." 48:8

"Cursed by he that keepeth back his sword from blood." 48:10

God will destroy everyone in Moab. Fire will burn their heads, and their sons and daughters will be taken captive. 48:42-46

God will cause the daughters of Rabbah to be burned with fire. 49:2

God will expose Esau's "secret places" and spoil his seed (kill his children). 49:10

God will send such marvelous plagues on Edom that everyone will hiss in astonishment. 49:17

God plans to "bring evil upon" the people of Elam. He says he'll kill them all with a sword. 49:37

"Every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues." 50:13

"Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD." 50:14

"It is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her." 50:15

God says to do the usual thing to the inhabitants of "the land of Merathaim": kill them all. 50:21

"I have laid a snare for thee ... O Babylon, and thou wast not aware ... because thou hast striven against the LORD." 50:24

"The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord." 50:25

"Destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left." 50:26

"Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them!" 50:27

Call together the archers against Babylon ... let none thereof escape." 50:29

Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD." 50:30

God, the pyromaniac, will personally set the fires that will burn to death the inhabitants of entire cities. 50:32

"Let the archer bend his bow ...and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host." 51:3

"The slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets." 51:4

"This is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence." 51:6

"Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad." 51:7

"Make bright the arrows ... it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple." 51:11

"The LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon." 51:12

God plans to kill all the Babylonian horses, and to make the Babylonian men "become like women." (A fate worse than death to a misogynous god.). 50:37

God wants us to be his "battle axe and weapons of war" to "break in pieces the nations" and "destroy kingdoms." 51:20

God will "break in pieces" nations and kingdoms, horse and rider, man and woman, old and young, young man and maid, the shepherd and his flock, husbandman and his yoke of oxen, captain and kings. It seems that God intends to break us all into pieces. 51:21-23

God will get the Babylonians drunk and then kill them all, leading them "like lambs to the slaughter." 51:39-40

Lamentations

God tramples "as in a winepress" mighty men, young men, and virgins. 1:15-16

"The Lord Was an enemy." 2:4-8

God mercilessly kills everyone, young and old. He even causes women to eat their children. 2:20-22

God is like a bear or a lion who secretly pursues you and then tears you apart. 3:10-11

God shoots people with his bow and his arrows pierce their kidneys ("reins"). 3:13

"He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones."
3:16

"Thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied."
3:43

"Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Persecute and destroy them in anger." 3:63-64

God punishes the Israelites by starving their children to death. 4:4-9

God "accomplishes his fury" by making women eat their children. 4:10-11