Jeremiah 6:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Jerusalem is a lovely pasture, but shepherds will surround it and divide it up, then let their flocks eat all the grass.

Cross References

Isaiah 1:8

Enemies surround Jerusalem, alone like a hut in a vineyard or in a cucumber field.

Jeremiah 4:31

I heard groaning and crying. Was it a woman giving birth to her first child? No, it was Jerusalem. She was gasping for breath and begging for help. “I'm dying!” she said. “They have murdered me.”

Lamentations 2:1

The Lord was angry! So he disgraced Zion though it was Israel's pride and his own place of rest. In his anger he threw Zion down from heaven to earth.

Lamentations 2:13

Zion, how can I comfort you? How great is your pain? Lovely city of Jerusalem, how can I heal your wounds, gaping as wide as the sea?

Lamentations 4:5

All who ate expensive foods lie starving in the streets; those who grew up in luxury now sit on rubbish heaps.

Deuteronomy 28:56

A woman may have grown up in such luxury that she never had to put a foot on the ground. But times will be so bad that she will secretly eat both her newborn baby and the afterbirth, without sharing any with her husband or her other children.