Jeremiah 9:11

Good News Translation

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.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:2

In front of his companions and the Samaritan troops he said, “What do these miserable Jews think they're doing? Do they intend to rebuild the city? Do they think that by offering sacrifices they can finish the work in one day? Can they make building stones out of heaps of burnt rubble?”

Psalm 107:43

May those who are wise think about these things; may they consider the Lord's constant love.

Psalm 44:19

Yet you left us helpless among wild animals; you abandoned us in deepest darkness.

Psalm 79:1

O God, the heathen have invaded your land. They have desecrated your holy Temple and left Jerusalem in ruins.

Isaiah 13:22

The towers and palaces will echo with the cries of hyenas and jackals. Babylon's time has come! Her days are almost over.”

Isaiah 25:2

You have turned cities into ruins and destroyed their fortifications. The palaces which our enemies built are gone forever.

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns and thistles will grow up in all the palaces and walled towns, and jackals and owls will live in them.

Isaiah 44:26

But when my servant makes a prediction, when I send a messenger to reveal my plans, I make those plans and predictions come true. I tell Jerusalem that people will live there again, and the cities of Judah that they will be rebuilt. Those cities will rise from the ruins.

Jeremiah 1:15

because I am calling all the nations in the north to come. Their kings will set up their thrones at the gates of Jerusalem and around its walls and also around the other cities of Judah.

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 16:10

“When you tell them all this, they will ask you why I have decided to punish them so harshly. They will ask what crime they are guilty of and what sin they have committed against the Lord their God.

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 25:18

Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah, together with its kings and leaders, were made to drink from it, so that they would become a desert, a terrible and shocking sight, and so that people would use their name as a curse—as they still do.

Jeremiah 26:18

“When Hezekiah was king of Judah, the prophet Micah of Moresheth told all the people that the Lord Almighty had said, ‘Zion will be plowed like a field; Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.’

Jeremiah 26:9

Why have you said in the Lord's name that this Temple will become like Shiloh and that this city will be destroyed and no one will live in it?” Then the people crowded around me.

Jeremiah 34:22

I will give the order, and they will return to this city. They will attack it, capture it, and burn it down. I will make the towns of Judah like a desert where no one lives. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 4:27

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

Jeremiah 44:2

The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, said, “You yourselves have seen the destruction I brought on Jerusalem and all the other cities of Judah. Even now they are still in ruins, and no one lives in them

Jeremiah 49:33

Hazor will be made a desert forever, a place where only jackals live. No one will ever live there again. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 50:3

“A nation from the north has come to attack Babylonia and will make it a desert. People and animals will run away, and no one will live there.”

Jeremiah 51:37

That country will become a pile of ruins where wild animals live. It will be a horrible sight; no one will live there, and all who see it will be terrified.

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no medicine in Gilead? Are there no doctors there? Why, then, have my people not been healed?

Lamentations 1:4

No one comes to the Temple now to worship on the holy days. The young women who sang there suffer, and the priests can only groan. The city gates stand empty, and Zion is in agony.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord destroyed without mercy every village in Judah And tore down the forts that defended the land. He brought disgrace on the kingdom and its rulers.

Lamentations 3:47

We have been through disaster and ruin; we live in danger and fear.

Leviticus 26:32

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

Micah 1:6

So the Lord says, “I will make Samaria a pile of ruins in the open country, a place for planting grapevines. I will pour the rubble of the city down into the valley, and will lay bare the city's foundations.

Micah 3:12

And so, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.

Micah 6:16

This will happen because you have followed the evil practices of King Omri and of his son, King Ahab. You have continued their policies, and so I will bring you to ruin, and everyone will despise you. People everywhere will treat you with contempt.”

Deuteronomy 29:23

The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed when he was furiously angry.

Revelation 18:2

He cried out in a loud voice: “She has fallen! Great Babylon has fallen! She is now haunted by demons and unclean spirits; all kinds of filthy and hateful birds live in her.