New Revised Standard Version
At one moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,

Contemporary English Version
If I threaten to uproot and shatter an evil nation,

New American Bible
At one moment I may decree concerning a nation or kingdom that I will uproot and tear down and destroy it;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.

I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.

to pluck.

Jeremiah 1:10 Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over kingdoms, to root up, and to pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant.

Jeremiah 12:14-17 Thus saith the Lord against all wicked neighbours, that touch the inheritance that I have shared out to my people Israel: Behold I will pluck them out of their land, and I will pluck the house of Juda out of the midst of them. . . .

Jeremiah 25:9 Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 45:4 Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them whom I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do pluck up, and all this land.

Amos 9:8 Are not you as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel, saith the Lord? did not I bring up Israel, out of the land of Egypt: and the Philistines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of Cyrene?

Jonah 3:4 And Jonah arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.