Jeremiah 12:4

Good News Translation

How long will our land be dry, and the grass in every field be withered? Animals and birds are dying because of the wickedness of our people, people who say, ‘God doesn't see what we are doing.’”

Cross References

Psalm 107:34

He made rich soil become a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

Psalm 50:21

You have done all this, and I have said nothing, so you thought that I am like you. But now I reprimand you and make the matter plain to you.

Isaiah 24:4

The earth dries up and withers; the whole world grows weak; both earth and sky decay.

Isaiah 24:6

So God has pronounced a curse on the earth. Its people are paying for what they have done. Fewer and fewer remain alive.

Jeremiah 12:11

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

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 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 4:25

I saw that there were no people; even the birds had flown away.

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 5:13

They have said that the prophets are nothing but windbags and that they have no message from the Lord. The Lord God Almighty said to me, “Jeremiah, because these people have said such things, I will make my words like a fire in your mouth. The people will be like wood, and the fire will burn them up.”

Jeremiah 5:31

prophets speak nothing but lies; priests rule as the prophets command, and my people offer no objections. But what will they do when it all comes to an end?”

Jeremiah 7:20

And so I, the Sovereign Lord, will pour out my fierce anger on this Temple. I will pour it out on people and animals alike, and even on the trees and the crops. My anger will be like a fire that no one can put out.

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 9:9

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

Hosea 4:3

And so the land will dry up, and everything that lives on it will die. All the animals and birds, and even the fish, will die.”

Joel 1:18

The cattle are bellowing in distress because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep also suffer.

Amos 1:2

Amos said, “The Lord roars from Mount Zion; his voice thunders from Jerusalem. The pastures dry up, and the grass on Mount Carmel turns brown.”

Habakkuk 3:17

Even though the fig trees have no fruit and no grapes grow on the vines, even though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no grain, even though the sheep all die and the cattle stalls are empty,

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel said, “Almighty Lord, you have been angry with Jerusalem and the cities of Judah for seventy years now. How much longer will it be before you show them mercy?”

Romans 8:22

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