Jeremiah 22:6

New American Bible - revised edition

For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: Though you be to me like Gilead, like the peak of Lebanon, I swear I shall turn you into a waste, with cities uninhabited.

Cross References

Genesis 37:25

Then they sat down to eat. Looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, their camels laden with gum, balm, and resin to be taken down to Egypt.

Psalm 107:34

Fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its people.

Song of Solomon 4:1

M, How beautiful you are, my friend, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

Song of Solomon 5:15

His legs, pillars of alabaster, resting on golden pedestals. His appearance, like the Lebanon, imposing as the cedars.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city shall be desolate, an abandoned pasture, a forsaken wilderness; There calves shall graze, there they shall lie down, and consume its branches.

Isaiah 37:24

Through the mouths of your messengers you have insulted the Lord when you said: ‘With my many chariots I went up to the tops of the peaks, to the recesses of Lebanon, To cut down its lofty cedars, its choice cypresses; I reached the farthest shelter, the forest ranges.

Isaiah 6:11

“How long, O Lord?” I asked. And he replied: Until the cities are desolate, without inhabitants, Houses, without people, and the land is a desolate waste.

Jeremiah 21:11

To the royal house of Judah: Hear the word of the Lord,

Jeremiah 21:14

I will punish you—oracle of the Lord— as your deeds deserve! I will kindle a fire in its forest that shall devour all its surroundings.

Jeremiah 22:24

As I live—oracle of the Lord—even if you, Coniah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would snatch you off.

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah of Moresheth used to prophesy in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, Jerusalem, a heap of ruins, and the temple mount, a forest ridge.

Jeremiah 4:20

Ruin upon ruin is reported; the whole land is laid waste. In an instant my tents are ravaged; in a flash, my shelters.

Jeremiah 4:7

Up comes the lion from its lair, the destroyer of nations has set out, has left its place, To turn your land into a desolation, your cities into an uninhabited waste.

Jeremiah 50:12

Your mother will indeed be put to shame, she that bore you shall be abashed; See, the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry wasteland.

Jeremiah 7:34

I will silence the cry of joy, the cry of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for the land will be turned to rubble.

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead, no healer there? Why does new flesh not grow over the wound of the daughter of my people?

Jeremiah 9:11

Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken? Let him declare it! Why is the land ravaged, scorched like a wilderness no one crosses?

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem reduced to rubble, And the mount of the temple to a forest ridge.

Zechariah 11:1

Open your doors, Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars!

Numbers 32:1

Now the Reubenites and Gadites had a very large number of livestock. Noticing that the land of Jazer and of Gilead was a place suited to livestock,

Deuteronomy 3:25

Ah, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that fine hill country, and the Lebanon!”