Jeremiah 12:4

New International Version

How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished. Moreover, the people are saying, “He will not see what happens to us.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:10

I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds have all fled and the animals are gone.

Jeremiah 4:25

I looked, and there were no people; every bird in the sky had flown away.

Psalm 107:34

and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

Romans 8:22

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Hosea 4:3

Because of this the land dries up, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea are swept away.

Jeremiah 23:10

The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land lies parched and the pastures in the wilderness are withered. The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly.

Jeremiah 7:20

“ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.

Habakkuk 3:17

Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?

Jeremiah 14:2

“Judah mourns, her cities languish; they wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 5:13

The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be done to them.”

Jeremiah 4:28

Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow dark, because I have spoken and will not relent, I have decided and will not turn back.”

Psalm 50:21

When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.

Jeremiah 12:11

It will be made a wasteland, parched and desolate before me; the whole land will be laid waste because there is no one who cares.

Joel 1:18

How the cattle moan! The herds mill about because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

Amos 1:2

He said: “The Lord roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers.”

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord said, “Lord Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?”

Isaiah 24:4

The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the heavens languish with the earth.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

Jeremiah 9:9

Should I not punish them for this?” declares the Lord. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?”