Jeremiah 12:4

Modern English Version

How long shall the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts and the birds have been snatched away, because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

Cross References

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into barrenness, because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

Psalm 50:21

These things have you done, and I kept silent; you thought that I was indeed like you; but I will rebuke you and make a case before your eyes.

Isaiah 24:4

The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth languish.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore, the curse devours the earth, and those who dwell in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it desolate, and being desolate, it mourns to Me. The whole land has been made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they sit on the ground while mourning, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adulterers; for the land mourns because of the curse. The pleasant places of the wilderness have dried up. And their course is evil and their might is not right.

Jeremiah 4:25

I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens had fled.

Jeremiah 4:28

For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not relent, nor will I turn back from it.

Jeremiah 5:13

And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it shall be done to them!

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and My people love to have it so. Yet what will you do in the end?

Jeremiah 7:20

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out upon this place, upon man and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up so that no one can pass through them; nor can men hear the lowing of the cattle. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.

Jeremiah 9:9

Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord. Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Hosea 4:3

Therefore the land dries up, and everyone who lives in it withers with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky; even the fish of the sea disappear.

Joel 1:18

How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are confused, because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep suffer.

Amos 1:2

He said: The Lord roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds languish, the top of Carmel withers.

Habakkuk 3:17

Though the fig tree does not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the yield of the olive fails, and the fields produce no food; though the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls—

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord said, “How much longer, O  Lord of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with which You have been angry these seventy years?”

Romans 8:22

We know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.