Jeremiah 9:10

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

I, Jeremiah, will cry for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the empty fields, because all the animals were taken away. No one travels there now. The sounds of cattle cannot be heard. The birds have flown away, and the animals are gone.

Cross References

Jeremiah 12:4

How much longer will the land be dry? How long will the grass be dry and dead? The birds and the animals of this land have all died, and it is the fault of the wicked. But they are saying, “Jeremiah will not live long enough to see what happens to us.”

Hosea 4:3

So the country is like someone crying for the dead, and all of its people are weak. Even the animals of the field, the birds of the sky, and the fish in the sea are dying.

Ezekiel 33:28

I will make the land empty and a waste. That country will lose all the things it was proud of. The mountains of Israel will become empty. No one will pass through that place.

Ezekiel 29:11

No person or animal will pass through Egypt. Nothing will pass through or settle there for 40 years.

Ezekiel 14:15

“Or I might send wild animals through that country to kill all the people. Then no one would travel through that country because of the wild animals.

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard. They have trampled the plants in my field. They have made my beautiful field a desert.

Jeremiah 7:29

“Jeremiah, cut off your hair and throw it away. Go up to the bare hilltop and cry, because the Lord has rejected this generation of people. He has turned his back on these people. And in anger he will punish them.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out with tears, and my insides are upset. My heart feels like it has been poured on the ground; I feel this way because of the destruction of my people. Children and babies are fainting in the public squares of the city.

Lamentations 1:16

“I cry about all these things. Tears are flowing down my cheeks. There is no one near to comfort me. There is no one who can make me feel better. My children are like a wasteland, because the enemy won.”

Jeremiah 23:10

The land of Judah is full of people who commit adultery. They are unfaithful in many ways. So God cursed the land, and it became very dry. The plants are dried and dying in the pastures. The fields have become like the desert. The prophets are evil. They use their influence and power in the wrong way.

Jeremiah 14:6

Wild donkeys stand on the bare hills. They sniff the wind like jackals. But their eyes cannot find any food, because there are no plants to eat.

Jeremiah 8:18

God, I am very sad and afraid.

Jeremiah 2:6

Your ancestors did not say, ‘The Lord brought us out of Egypt. He led us through the desert, through a dry and rocky land. He led us through a dark and dangerous land. No one lives there; people don’t even travel through that land. But the Lord led us through that land. So where is he now?’

Isaiah 49:19

“You are destroyed and defeated now. Your land is useless. But after a short time, you will have many people in your land. And those who destroyed you will be far, far away.

Isaiah 41:15

Look, I have made you like a new threshing board with many sharp teeth. You will trample mountains and crush them. You will make the hills like chaff.

Jeremiah 50:3

A nation from the north will attack Babylon. That nation will make Babylon like an empty desert. No one will live there. Both men and animals will run away.”

Ezekiel 27:2

“Son of man, sing this sad song about Tyre.

Joel 1:13

Priests, put on sackcloth and cry loudly. Servants of the altar, cry loudly. Servants of my God, you will sleep in sackcloth, because there will be no more grain and drink offerings in God’s Temple.

Joel 1:19

Lord, I am calling to you for help. Fire has changed our green fields into a desert. Flames have burned all the trees in the field.

Amos 5:1

People of Israel, listen to this song. This funeral song is about you.

Amos 5:16

The Lord, the Lord God All-Powerful says, “People will be crying in the public places. They will be crying in the streets. They will hire the professional criers.

Micah 2:4

Then people will sing songs about you. They will sing this sad song: ‘We are ruined! The Lord took away our land and gave it to other people. Yes, he took my land away from me. He has divided our fields among our enemies.

Jeremiah 2:15

Like a lion the enemy has roared at Israel. They have destroyed your land. Your cities have been burned, and no one is left in them.

Jeremiah 12:11

They have turned it into an empty desert. It is dry and dead. The whole land has been ruined, and no one is left to care for it.

Lamentations 5:18

Mount Zion is a wasteland. Foxes run around on Mount Zion.

Ezekiel 6:6

Bad things will happen wherever your people live. Their cities will become piles of rock. Their high places will be destroyed so that those places of worship will never be used again. The altars will all be destroyed. People will never worship those filthy idols again. The incense altars will be smashed. Everything you made will be destroyed completely.

Micah 3:12

Leaders, because of you, Zion will be destroyed. It will become a plowed field. Jerusalem will become a pile of rocks. Temple Mount will be an empty hill overgrown with bushes.