Jeremiah 9:10

God's Word

I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.

Cross References

Isaiah 41:15

“I am going to make you into a new threshing  sledge with sharp, double-edged teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them to dust. You will turn the hills into straw.

Isaiah 49:19

Though you are destroyed and demolished and your land is in ruins, you will be too crowded for ⌞your⌟ people now. Those who devoured you will be long gone.

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They’ve trampled my property. They’ve turned my pleasant property into a wasteland.

Jeremiah 12:11

They’ve left it a wasteland. Devastated, it mourns in my presence. The whole land is destroyed, but no one takes this to heart.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the land mourn? How long will the plants in every field remain dried up? The animals and the birds are dying, because people are wicked. They think that God  doesn’t know what they are doing.

Jeremiah 14:6

Wild donkeys stand on the bare hills. They sniff the air like jackals. Their eyesight fails because they have no green plants.

Jeremiah 2:15

Young lions have roared very loudly at them. Young lions have turned the land into a wasteland. The cities have been burned down, and everyone has left.

Jeremiah 2:6

They didn’t ask, “Where is the Lord, who brought us from Egypt? He led us through the desert, through a wasteland and its pits, a land of drought and the shadow of death. No one lives there or travels there.”

Jeremiah 23:10

The land is filled with adulterers. The land mourns because of the curse. Pastures in the wilderness have dried up. The people are evil, and they use their strength to do the wrong things.

Jeremiah 50:3

A nation from the north will attack Babylon and destroy its land so that no one will live in it. People and animals will run away.

Jeremiah 7:29

“Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the bare hills, because in his anger the Lord has rejected and abandoned the people of this generation.

Jeremiah 8:18

Sorrow has overwhelmed me. I am sick at heart!

Lamentations 1:16

I’m crying because of ⌞all⌟ these things. My eyes—my eyes flow with tears. No one can give me the comfort I need to keep me alive. Everyone is too far away from me. My children are devastated because my enemies have won.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out with tears. My stomach is churning. My heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people. Little children and infants faint in the city streets.

Lamentations 5:18

Foxes roam around on Mount Zion, which lies in ruins.

Ezekiel 14:15

“Suppose I send wild animals through that country and they make it childless and turn it into such a wasteland that no one travels through it because of the animals.

Ezekiel 27:2

“Son of man, sing a funeral song about Tyre.

Ezekiel 29:11

No human or animal will walk through it, and no one will live there for 40 years.

Ezekiel 33:28

I will turn the land into a barren wasteland. People will no longer brag about its power. The mountains of Israel will become so ruined that no one will travel through them.

Ezekiel 6:6

Wherever people live, the cities will be ruined, and the worship sites will be wrecked. Your altars will be ruined and demolished. Your idols will be smashed and completely destroyed. Your incense burners will be cut down, and everything you have done will be wiped out.

Hosea 4:3

That is why the land is drying up, and everyone who lives in it is passing away. Wild animals, birds, and fish are dying.

Joel 1:13

Put on your sackcloth and mourn, you priests. Cry loudly, you servants of the altar. Spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God. Grain offerings and wine offerings are withheld from your God’s temple.

Joel 1:19

O Lord, I cry to you for help! Fire has burned up the open pastures. Flames have burned up all the trees in the orchards.

Amos 5:1

Listen to this message, this funeral song that I sing about you, nation of Israel:

Amos 5:16

This is what the Lord, the Almighty God of Armies, says: There will be loud crying in every city square, and people will say in every street, “Oh, no!” They will call on farmers to mourn and on professional mourners to cry loudly.

Micah 2:4

When that day comes, people will make fun of you. They will sing this sad song about you: “We are completely ruined. The Lord gives our people’s possessions ⌞to others⌟. He takes them from us. He divides our fields among our captors.”

Micah 3:12

Because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of rubble, and the temple mountain will become a worship site covered with trees.