Jeremiah 9:11

Modern English Version

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins and a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:2

He spoke before his relatives and the army of Samaria and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they fortifying themselves? Will they make sacrifices? Can they complete this in a day? Can they revive the burned-up stones out of the rubbish heaps?”

Psalm 107:43

Whoever is wise will observe these things, and they will consider the lovingkindness of the Lord.

Psalm 44:19

Yet You have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalm 79:1

O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; Your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Isaiah 13:22

The wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses and jackals in their pleasant palaces. And her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Isaiah 25:2

For You have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin; a palace of strangers is a city no longer; it shall never be built.

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses; and it shall be a habitation of jackals and a home for owls.

Isaiah 44:26

who confirms the word of His servant and performs the counsel of His messengers, who says to Jerusalem, “You shall be inhabited,” and to the cities of Judah, “You shall be built.” And I will raise up her ruins again;

Jeremiah 1:15

For behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord. And they will come and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 10:22

Behold, the sound of the report has come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate and a den of jackals.

Jeremiah 16:10

And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, “Why has the Lord pronounced all this great disaster against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?”

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and the kings and the officials, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’

Jeremiah 26:9

Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant’?” And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 34:22

Behold, I will command, declares the Lord, and cause them to return to this city, and they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be desolate. Yet I will not make a full end.

Jeremiah 44:2

Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the calamity that I have brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them,

Jeremiah 49:33

Hazor will become a dwelling for jackals and a desolation forever. No man will abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

Jeremiah 50:3

For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They will wander away; they will depart, both man and beast.

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn because no one comes to the solemn feasts. All her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 3:47

Panic and snare have come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Leviticus 26:32

I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell there shall be astonished at it.

Micah 1:6

Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the field for the planting of vineyards. I will dump her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will be mounds of ruins, and the mountain of the house will become wooded heights.

Micah 6:16

You observe the statutes of Omri, and every practice of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels. Therefore I will give you over to destruction, and the inhabitants to derision. You will bear the contempt of My people.

Deuteronomy 29:23

“The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath.”

Revelation 18:2

He cried out mightily with a loud voice, saying: “ ‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ She has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, and a haunt for every unclean and hateful bird.