Jeremiah 9:11

Catholic Public Domain Version

And I will make Jerusalem into piles of sand and into a lair for serpents. And I will make the cities of Judah desolate, so much so that there will be no inhabitant.

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:2

And he said, before his brothers and a crowd of the Samaritans: "What are the foolish Jews doing? Can it be that the Gentiles will allow them? Will they sacrifice and finish in one day? Do they have the ability to make stones out of piles of dust that have been burned up?"

Psalm 79:1

Unto the end. For those who will be changed. The testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.

Isaiah 13:22

And the tawny owls will answer one another there, in its buildings, and the Sirens in its shrines of pleasure.

Isaiah 25:2

For you have appointed a city as a tomb, a strong city for ruination, a house of foreigners: so that it may not be a city, and so that it may not be rebuilt forever.

Isaiah 34:13

And thorns and nettles will rise up in its houses, and the thistle in its fortified places. And it will be the lair of serpents and the pasture of ostriches.

Isaiah 44:26

I lift up the word of my servant, and I fulfill the counsel of my messengers. I say to Jerusalem, "You shall be inhabited," and to the cities of Judah, "You shall be rebuilt," and I will lift up its deserts.

Jeremiah 1:15

For behold, I will call together all the close associates of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord. And they will arrive, and each one of them will place his throne at the entrance to the gates of Jerusalem, and over all its surrounding walls, and over all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 10:22

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.

Jeremiah 16:10

And when you announce all these words to this people, they will say to you: 'Why would the Lord pronounce all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity and what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?'

Jeremiah 25:11

And this entire land will be in desolation and in stupor. And all these nations will serve the king of Babylon, for seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its leaders, so that I gave them over to desolation, and stupor, and hissing, and a curse, just as it is this day.

Jeremiah 26:18

"Micah from Moresheth was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying: 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: Zion will be ploughed like a field. And Jerusalem will be a pile of stones. And the mountain of the house will be like the forests of high places.'

Jeremiah 26:9

"Why has he prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying: 'Like Shiloh, so shall this house be,' and, 'This city shall be made desolate, even without an inhabitant?' " And all the people were gathered together against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 34:22

Behold, I will command, says the Lord, and I will lead them back to this city, and they will fight against it, and seize it, and set it on fire. And I will make the cities of Judah into a desolation, for there shall be no inhabitant."

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says the Lord: "All the earth will be desolate, but I will not yet bring about its consummation.

Jeremiah 44:2

"Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You yourselves have seen all this evil that I have led over Jerusalem and over all the cities of Judah. And behold, they are desolate to this day, and there is no inhabitant in them,

Jeremiah 49:33

And Hazor will be a habitation for serpents, deserted even unto eternity. No man will abide there, nor will a son of man tend it."

Jeremiah 50:3

For a nation has ascended against her from the north, which will set her land in desolation. And there will be no one who may live within it, from man even to beast. For they have been removed and have gone away.

Jeremiah 51:37

And Babylon will become a tumult, the habitation of dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead? Or is there no physician there? Then why has the wound of the daughter of my people not been closed?"

Lamentations 1:4

DALETH. The pathways of Zion mourn, because there are none who approach for the solemnity. All her gates are destroyed. Her priests groan. Her virgins are filthy. And she is overwhelmed with bitterness.

Lamentations 2:2

BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.

Lamentations 3:47

PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief.

Leviticus 26:32

And I will utterly ruin your land, and your enemies shall be stupefied at it, when they will have become its inhabitants.

Micah 1:6

And I will place Samaria like a pile of stones in the field, when a vineyard is planted. And I will pull down its stones into the valley, and I will reveal her foundations.

Micah 3:12

For this reason, because of you, Zion will be plowed under like a field, and Jerusalem will become like a pile of stones, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of the forests.

Micah 6:16

For you have kept the precepts of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you have walked according their wills, so that I should give you over to perdition and its hissing inhabitants, and you would carry the disgrace of my people.

Deuteronomy 29:23

having burned it with sulphur and molten salt, so that it can no longer be sown. And certainly no greenery would spring up, as in the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overturned with his wrath and fury.

Revelation 18:2

And he cried out with strength, saying: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. And she has become the habitation of demons, and the keepsake of every unclean spirit, and the possession of every unclean and hateful flying thing.