Jeremiah 7:34

Good News Translation

The land will become a desert. In the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the happy sounds of wedding feasts.

Cross References

Job 3:7

make it a barren, joyless night.

Psalm 78:63

Young men were killed in war, and young women had no one to marry.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country has been devastated, and your cities have been burned to the ground. While you look on, foreigners take over your land and bring everything to ruin.

Isaiah 3:26

The city gates will mourn and cry, and the city itself will be like a woman sitting on the ground, stripped naked.

Isaiah 6:11

I asked, “How long will it be like this, Lord?” He answered, “Until the cities are ruined and empty—until the houses are uninhabited—until the land itself is a desolate wasteland.

Jeremiah 16:9

Listen to what I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, have to say. I will silence the sounds of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. The people here will live to see this happen.

Jeremiah 22:6

“To me, Judah's royal palace is as beautiful as the land of Gilead and as the Lebanon Mountains; but I will make it a desolate place where no one lives.

Jeremiah 25:10

I will silence their shouts of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. They will have no oil for their lamps, and there will be no more grain.

Jeremiah 27:17

Don't listen to them! Submit to the king of Babylonia and you will live! Why should this city become a pile of ruins?

Jeremiah 33:10

The Lord said, “People are saying that this place is like a desert, that it has no people or animals living in it. And they are right; the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem are empty; no people or animals live there. But in these places you will hear again

Jeremiah 33:11

the shouts of gladness and joy and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. You will hear people sing as they bring thank offerings to my Temple; they will say, ‘Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, because he is good and his love is eternal.’ I will make this land as prosperous as it was before. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 4:26

The fertile land had become a desert; its cities were in ruins because of the Lord's fierce anger. (

Jeremiah 4:27

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

Jeremiah 44:6

So I poured out my anger and fury on the towns of Judah and on the streets of Jerusalem, and I set them on fire. They were left in ruins and became a horrifying sight, as they are today.

Lamentations 5:14

The old people no longer sit at the city gate, and the young people no longer make music.

Ezekiel 26:13

I will put an end to all your songs, and I will silence the music of your harps.

Ezekiel 7:11

Violence produces more wickedness. Nothing of theirs will remain, nothing of their wealth, their splendor, or their glory.

Hosea 2:11

I will put an end to all her festivities—her annual and monthly festivals and her Sabbath celebrations—all her religious meetings.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the times that she forgot me, when she burned incense to Baal and put on her jewelry to go chasing after her lovers. The Lord has spoken.

Leviticus 26:33

I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.

Micah 7:13

But the earth will become a desert because of the wickedness of those who live on it.

Revelation 18:23

Never again will the light of a lamp be seen in you; no more will the voices of brides and grooms be heard in you. Your merchants were the most powerful in all the world, and with your false magic you deceived all the peoples of the world!”