Jeremiah 10:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² Hear, a noise! Listen, it is coming— a great commotion from the land of the north to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Hark, the sound of a rumor! [The invading army] comes!–a great commotion out of the north country–to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

Common English Bible

²² Listen! The sound is getting louder, a mighty uproar from the land of the north; it will reduce the towns of Judah to ruins, a den for wild dogs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Behold, the sound of a voice approaches, a great commotion from the land of the north: so that he may make the cities of Judah into a wilderness and into a dwelling place for serpents.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Behold, the sound of a noise cometh, a great commotion out of the land of the north: to make the cities of Juda a desert and a dwelling for dragons.

Jeremiah 10:22 Cross References

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Jeremiah 1:14

Then the Lord said to me: “Out of the north disaster shall break out on all the inhabitants of the land.

Jeremiah 1:15

For now I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord, and they shall come, and all of them shall set their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its surrounding walls and against all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 2:15

The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.

Jeremiah 4:15

For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims disaster from Mount Ephraim.

Jeremiah 4:6

Raise a standard toward Zion; flee for safety; do not delay, for I am bringing evil from the north and a great destruction.

Jeremiah 49:33

Hazor shall become a lair of jackals, an everlasting waste; no one shall live there, nor shall anyone settle in it.

Jeremiah 5:15

I am going to bring upon you a nation from far away, O house of Israel, says the Lord. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.

Jeremiah 6:1

Flee for safety, O children of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem, for evil looms out of the north and great destruction.

Jeremiah 6:22

Thus says the Lord: See, a people is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the festivals; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her young girls grieve, and her lot is bitter.

Ezekiel 12:19

and say to the people of the land: “Thus says the Lord God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness and drink their water in dismay, because their land shall be stripped of all it contains, on account of the violence of all those who live in it.

Malachi 1:3

but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.