Jeremiah 9:11

New American Bible - revised edition

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?

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:2

They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to throw us into confusion.

Psalm 107:43

Whoever is wise will take note of these things, and ponder the merciful deeds of the Lord.

Psalm 44:19

Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path.

Psalm 79:1

A psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Isaiah 13:22

Wild dogs shall dwell in its castles, and jackals in its luxurious palaces. Its time is near at hand and its days shall not be prolonged.

Isaiah 25:2

For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin, The castle of the insolent, a city no more, not ever to be rebuilt.

Isaiah 34:13

Its castles shall be overgrown with thorns, its fortresses with thistles and briers. It shall become an abode for jackals, a haunt for ostriches.

Isaiah 44:26

I confirm the words of my servant, carry out the plan my messengers announce. I say to Jerusalem, Be inhabited! To the cities of Judah, Be rebuilt! I will raise up their ruins.

Jeremiah 1:15

Look, I am summoning all the kingdoms of the north—oracle of the Lord— Each king shall come and set up his throne in the gateways of Jerusalem, Against all its surrounding walls and against all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 10:22

Listen! a rumor! here it comes, a great commotion from the land of the north: To make the cities of Judah a desolation, the haunt of jackals.

Jeremiah 16:10

When you proclaim all these words to this people and they ask you: “Why has the Lord pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our crime? What sin have we committed against the Lord, our God?”—

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land shall be a ruin and a waste. Seventy years these nations shall serve the king of Babylon;

Jeremiah 25:18

to Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a ruin and a waste, an object of hissing and cursing, as they are today;

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 26:9

Why do you prophesy in the name of the Lord: ‘This house shall become like Shiloh,’ and ‘This city shall be desolate, without inhabitant’?” And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 34:22

I am giving the command—oracle of the Lord—to bring them back to this city. They shall attack and capture it, and burn it with fire; the cities of Judah I will turn into a waste, where no one dwells.

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says the Lord: The whole earth shall be waste, but I will not wholly destroy it.

Jeremiah 44:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You yourselves have seen all the evil I brought upon Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah. Today they lie in ruins uninhabited,

Jeremiah 49:33

Hazor shall become a haunt for jackals, a wasteland forever, Where no one lives, no mortal stays. Against Elam.

Jeremiah 50:3

A nation from the north advances against it, making the land desolate So that no one can live there; human beings and animals have fled.

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; A place of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

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?

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, empty of pilgrims to her feasts. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, Her young women grieve; her lot is bitter.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has devoured without pity all of Jacob’s dwellings; In his fury he has razed daughter Judah’s defenses, Has brought to the ground in dishonor a kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 3:47

Panic and the pit have been our lot, desolation and destruction;

Leviticus 26:32

So devastated will I leave the land that your enemies who come to live there will stand aghast at the sight of it.

Micah 1:6

So I will make Samaria a ruin in the field, a place to plant vineyards; I will throw its stones into the valley, and lay bare its foundations.

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.

Micah 6:16

You have kept the decrees of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have walked in their counsels; Therefore I will deliver you up to ruin, and your citizens to derision; and you shall bear the reproach of the nations.

Deuteronomy 29:23

they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?”

Revelation 18:2

He cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. She has become a haunt for demons. She is a cage for every unclean spirit, a cage for every unclean bird, [a cage for every unclean] and disgusting [beast].