Jeremiah 12:11

Good News Translation

They have made it a wasteland; it lies desolate before me. The whole land has become a desert, and no one cares.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a home where there is mourning than to one where there is a party, because the living should always remind themselves that death is waiting for us all.

Isaiah 42:25

So he made us feel the force of his anger and suffer the violence of war. Like fire his anger burned throughout Israel, but we never knew what was happening; we learned nothing at all from it.

Isaiah 57:1

Good people die, and no one understands or even cares. But when they die, no calamity can hurt them.

Jeremiah 10:22

Listen! News has come! There is a great commotion in a nation to the north; its army will turn the cities of Judah into a desert, a place where jackals live.”

Jeremiah 10:25

Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you and on the people who reject you. They have killed your people; they have destroyed us completely and left our country in ruins.

Jeremiah 14:2

“Judah is in mourning; its cities are dying, its people lie on the ground in sorrow, and Jerusalem cries out for help.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will bring such terrible destruction on this city that everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed.

Jeremiah 23:10

The land is full of people unfaithful to the Lord; they live wicked lives and misuse their power. Because of the Lord's curse the land mourns and the pastures are dry.

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land will be left in ruins and will be a shocking sight, and the neighboring nations will serve the king of Babylonia for seventy years.

Jeremiah 4:20

One disaster follows another; the whole country is left in ruins. Suddenly our tents are destroyed; their curtains are torn to pieces.

Jeremiah 4:27

The Lord has said that the whole earth will become a wasteland, but that he will not completely destroy it.)

Jeremiah 4:28

The earth will mourn; the sky will grow dark. The Lord has spoken and will not change his mind. He has made his decision and will not turn back.

Jeremiah 6:8

People of Jerusalem, let these troubles be a warning to you, or else I will abandon you; I will turn your city into a desert, a place where no one lives.”

Jeremiah 9:10

I said, “I will mourn for the mountains and weep for the pastures, because they have dried up, and no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard; birds and wild animals have fled and gone.”

Jeremiah 9:11

The Lord says, “I will make Jerusalem a pile of ruins, a place where jackals live; the cities of Judah will become a desert, a place where no one lives.”

Jeremiah 9:9

Will I not punish them for these things? Will I not take revenge on a nation like this? I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Joel 1:10

The fields are bare; the ground mourns because the grain is destroyed, the grapes are dried up, and the olive trees are withered.

Leviticus 26:32

I will destroy your land so completely that the enemies who occupy it will be shocked at the destruction.

Zechariah 7:5

He said, “Tell the people of the land and the priests that when they fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during these seventy years, it was not in honor of me.

Malachi 2:2

You must honor me by what you do. If you will not listen to what I say, then I will bring a curse on you. I will put a curse on the things you receive for your support. In fact, I have already put a curse on them, because you do not take my command seriously.

Romans 8:22

For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth.