Jeremiah 14:2

New Living Translation

“Judah wilts; commerce at the city gates grinds to a halt. All the people sit on the ground in mourning, and a great cry rises from Jerusalem.

Cross References

Job 34:28

They cause the poor to cry out, catching God’s attention. He hears the cries of the needy.

Psalm 144:14

and may our oxen be loaded down with produce. May there be no enemy breaking through our walls, no going into captivity, no cries of alarm in our town squares.

Exodus 2:24

God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Isaiah 15:5

My heart weeps for Moab. Its people flee to Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. Weeping, they climb the road to Luhith. Their cries of distress can be heard all along the road to Horonaim.

Isaiah 24:11

Mobs gather in the streets, crying out for wine. Joy has turned to gloom. Gladness has been banished from the land.

Isaiah 24:4

The earth mourns and dries up, and the land wastes away and withers. Even the greatest people on earth waste away.

Isaiah 24:7

The grapevines waste away, and there is no new wine. All the merrymakers sigh and mourn.

Isaiah 3:26

The gates of Zion will weep and mourn. The city will be like a ravaged woman, huddled on the ground.

Isaiah 33:9

The land of Israel wilts in mourning. Lebanon withers with shame. The plain of Sharon is now a wilderness. Bashan and Carmel have been plundered.

Isaiah 5:7

The nation of Israel is the vineyard of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. The people of Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected a crop of justice, but instead he found oppression. He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of violence.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to bring calamity upon them, and they will not escape. Though they beg for mercy, I will not listen to their cries.

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it an empty wasteland; I hear its mournful cry. The whole land is desolate, and no one even cares.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long must this land mourn? Even the grass in the fields has withered. The wild animals and birds have disappeared because of the evil in the land. For the people have said, “The Lord doesn’t see what’s ahead for us!”

Jeremiah 18:22

Let screaming be heard from their homes as warriors come suddenly upon them. For they have dug a pit for me and have hidden traps along my path.

Jeremiah 4:28

The earth will mourn and the heavens will be draped in black because of my decree against my people. I have made up my mind and will not change it.”

Jeremiah 46:12

The nations have heard of your shame. The earth is filled with your cries of despair. Your mightiest warriors will run into each other and fall down together.”

Jeremiah 8:21

I hurt with the hurt of my people. I mourn and am overcome with grief.

Lamentations 2:8

The Lord was determined to destroy the walls of beautiful Jerusalem. He made careful plans for their destruction, then did what he had planned. Therefore, the ramparts and walls have fallen down before him.

Lamentations 2:9

Jerusalem’s gates have sunk into the ground. He has smashed their locks and bars. Her kings and princes have been exiled to distant lands; her law has ceased to exist. Her prophets receive no more visions from the Lord.

Lamentations 5:10

The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.

Hosea 4:3

That is why your land is in mourning, and everyone is wasting away. Even the wild animals, the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea are disappearing.

Joel 1:10

The fields are ruined, the land is stripped bare. The grain is destroyed, the grapes have shriveled, and the olive oil is gone.

Joel 1:11

Despair, all you farmers! Wail, all you vine growers! Weep, because the wheat and barley— all the crops of the field—are ruined.

Joel 1:14

Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Bring the leaders and all the people of the land into the Temple of the Lord your God, and cry out to him there.

Joel 2:6

Fear grips all the people; every face grows pale with terror.

Haggai 1:11

I have called for a drought on your fields and hills—a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.”

Zechariah 7:13

“Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

1 Samuel 5:12

Those who didn’t die were afflicted with tumors; and the cry from the town rose to heaven.

1 Samuel 9:16

“About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him to be the leader of my people, Israel. He will rescue them from the Philistines, for I have looked down on my people in mercy and have heard their cry.”