Jeremiah 9:12

Modern English Version

Who is the wise man who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

Cross References

Psalm 107:34

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

Psalm 107:43

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

Isaiah 42:23

Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

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 23:16

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They lead you into vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:22

But if they had stood in My counsel and had caused My people to hear My words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds.

Jeremiah 23:28

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream. And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:20

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor a lamentation.

Ezekiel 14:23

Then they shall comfort you when you see their ways and their deeds. And you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord God.

Hosea 14:9

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever prudent, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just will walk in them; but the transgressors stumble in them.

Hosea 4:10

They will eat, but not be satisfied; they will play the whore, but not multiply, because they have forsaken the Lord by devoting themselves to

Joel 1:11

Despair, fieldworkers; wail, vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

Zephaniah 3:6

I have cut off nations, their strongholds are devastated; I have made their streets desolate, with no one passing by. Their cities are destroyed; there is no man, no inhabitant.

Matthew 24:15

“So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Deuteronomy 32:29

Would that they were wise, so that they understood this, so that they would comprehend their future!

Revelation 1:3

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it, for the time is near.