Jeremiah 9:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² Who is the wise man, that he understands this? And to whom has the mouth of יהוה spoken, that he declares it? Why has the land perished, has it been burned up like a wilderness, with none passing through?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Who is the wise man who may understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through it?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?

Common English Bible

¹² Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been taught by the LORD and can therefore explain it? Why has the land been reduced to rubble and laid waste like a desert, with no one passing through?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Who is the wise man who understands this, and to whom a word from the mouth of the Lord may be given, so that he may announce this: why the land has perished, and has been scorched like a desert, so much so that no one passes through it?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the land hath perished and is burnt up like a wilderness which none passeth through?

Jeremiah 9:12 Cross References

Psalm 107:34

A land of fruit becomes a salty desert, For the evil of those who dwell in it.

Psalm 107:43

Who is wise? Then let him observe these matters! Let them understand the loving-commitments of יהוה.

Isaiah 42:23

Who among you gives ear to this, pays attention and hears for the time to come?

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is filled with adulterers; for the land mourns because of a curse. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right.

Jeremiah 23:16

Thus said יהוה of hosts, “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, they lead you astray. They speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of יהוה.

Jeremiah 23:22

“But if they had stood in My counsel, then they would have let My people hear My Words, and they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds.

Jeremiah 23:28

“The prophet who has a dream, let him relate the dream, and he who has My Word, let him speak My Word in truth. What is the chaff to the wheat?” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 9:20

But hear the word of יהוה, O women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth. And teach your daughters wailing, and each one her neighbour a lamentation.

Ezekiel 14:23

“And they shall comfort you, when you see their ways and their deeds. And you shall know that it was not for naught that I have done whatever I did in it,” declares the Master יהוה.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise and understands these words, discerning and knows them? For the ways of יהוה are straight, and the righteous walk in them, but the transgressors stumble in them.

Hosea 4:10

“And they shall eat but not be satisfied, they shall whore but not increase, for they have stopped obeying יהוה.

Joel 1:11

The farmers are ashamed, the vinedressers wail over the wheat and over the barley, for the harvest of the field is destroyed.

Zephaniah 3:6

“I have cut off nations, their corner towers are in ruins. I have made their streets deserted, with no one passing by. Their cities are destroyed, without man, without inhabitant.

Matthew 24:15

“So when you see the ‘abomination that lays waste,’ spoken of by Dani’ĕl the prophet, set up in the set-apart place” – he who reads, let him understand –

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they were wise, They would understand this, They would consider their latter end!”

Revelation 1:3

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and guard what is written in it, for the time is near.