Jeremiah 9:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I weep for the pasture land in the hill country. It's so barren and scorched that no one travels there. No cattle can be found there, and birds and wild animals have all disappeared.

Cross References

Isaiah 41:15

I will let you be like a log covered with sharp spikes. You will grind and crush every mountain and hill until they turn to dust.

Isaiah 49:19

Jerusalem is now in ruins! Nothing is left of the city. But it will be rebuilt and soon overcrowded; its cruel enemies will be gone far away.

Jeremiah 12:10

My beautiful land is ruined like a field or a vineyard trampled by shepherds and stripped bare by their flocks.

Jeremiah 12:11

Every field I see lies barren, and no one cares.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the ground be dry and the pasture lands parched? The birds and animals are dead and gone. And all this happened because the people are so sinful. They even boast, “God can't see the sins we commit.”

Jeremiah 14:6

Wild donkeys go blind from starvation. So they stand on barren hilltops and sniff the air, hoping to smell green grass.

Jeremiah 2:15

Enemies roared like lions and destroyed your land; towns lie burnt and empty.

Jeremiah 2:6

Your ancestors refused to ask for my help, though I had rescued them from Egypt and led them through a treacherous, barren desert, where no one lives or dares to travel.

Jeremiah 23:10

Those unfaithful prophets misuse their power all over the country. So God turned the pasture lands into scorching deserts.

Jeremiah 50:3

The attack on the Babylonians will come from the north; they and their animals will run, leaving the land empty.

Jeremiah 7:29

Shave your head bald and throw away the hair. Sing a funeral song on top of a barren hill. You people have made me angry, and I have abandoned you.

Jeremiah 8:18

I'm burdened with sorrow and feel like giving up.

Lamentations 1:16

Because of this, I mourn, and tears flood my eyes. No one is here to comfort or to encourage me; we have lost the war— my people are suffering.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are red from crying, my stomach is in knots, and I feel sick all over. My people are being wiped out, and children lie helpless in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 5:18

our city is in ruins, overrun by wild dogs.

Ezekiel 14:15

Or suppose I punish a nation by sending wild animals to eat people and scare away every passer-by, so that the land becomes a barren desert.

Ezekiel 27:2

Ezekiel, son of man, sing a funeral song for Tyre,

Ezekiel 29:11

No human or animal will even dare travel through Egypt, because no sign of life will be found there for forty years.

Ezekiel 33:28

I will make the whole country an empty wasteland and crush the power in which you take such pride. Even the mountains will be bare, and no one will try to cross them.

Ezekiel 6:6

Every town in Israel will be destroyed to make sure that each shrine, idol, and altar is smashed—everything the Israelites made will be a pile of ruins.

Hosea 4:3

And so your land is a desert. Every living creature is dying— people and wild animals, birds and fish.

Joel 1:13

Mourn, you priests who serve at the altar of my God. Spend your days and nights wearing sackcloth. Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the LORD's temple.

Joel 1:19

I cry out to you, LORD. Grasslands and forests are eaten by the scorching heat.

Amos 5:1

Listen, nation of Israel, to my mournful message:

Amos 5:16

This is what the LORD has sworn: Noisy crying will be heard in every town and street. Even farmers will be told to mourn for the dead, together with those who are paid to mourn.

Micah 2:4

When that happens, this sorrowful song will be sung about you: “Ruined! Completely ruined! The LORD has taken our land and given it to traitors.”

Micah 3:12

And so, because of you, Jerusalem will be ploughed under and left in ruins. Thorns will cover the mountain where the temple now stands.