Jeremiah 7:34

New Living Translation

I will put an end to the happy singing and laughter in the streets of Jerusalem. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard in the towns of Judah. The land will lie in complete desolation.

Cross References

Job 3:7

Let that night be childless. Let it have no joy.

Psalm 78:63

Their young men were killed by fire; their young women died before singing their wedding songs.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country lies in ruins, and your towns are burned. Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes and destroy everything they see.

Isaiah 3:26

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

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “Lord, how long will this go on?” And he replied, “Until their towns are empty, their houses are deserted, and the whole country is a wasteland;

Jeremiah 16:9

For this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: In your own lifetime, before your very eyes, I will put an end to the happy singing and laughter in this land. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard.

Jeremiah 22:6

Now this is what the Lord says concerning Judah’s royal palace: “I love you as much as fruitful Gilead and the green forests of Lebanon. But I will turn you into a desert, with no one living within your walls.

Jeremiah 25:10

I will take away your happy singing and laughter. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard. Your millstones will fall silent, and the lights in your homes will go out.

Jeremiah 27:17

Do not listen to them. Surrender to the king of Babylon, and you will live. Why should this whole city be destroyed?

Jeremiah 33:10

“This is what the Lord says: You have said, ‘This is a desolate land where people and animals have all disappeared.’ Yet in the empty streets of Jerusalem and Judah’s other towns, there will be heard once more

Jeremiah 33:11

the sounds of joy and laughter. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will be heard again, along with the joyous songs of people bringing thanksgiving offerings to the Lord. They will sing, ‘Give thanks to the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, for the Lord is good. His faithful love endures forever!’ For I will restore the prosperity of this land to what it was in the past, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:26

I looked, and the fertile fields had become a wilderness. The towns lay in ruins, crushed by the Lord’s fierce anger.

Jeremiah 4:27

This is what the Lord says: “The whole land will be ruined, but I will not destroy it completely.

Jeremiah 44:6

And so my fury boiled over and fell like fire on the towns of Judah and into the streets of Jerusalem, and they are still a desolate ruin today.

Lamentations 5:14

The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.

Ezekiel 26:13

I will stop the music of your songs. No more will the sound of harps be heard among your people.

Ezekiel 7:11

Their violence has grown into a rod that will beat them for their wickedness. None of these proud and wicked people will survive. All their wealth and prestige will be swept away.

Hosea 2:11

I will put an end to her annual festivals, her new moon celebrations, and her Sabbath days— all her appointed festivals.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for all those times when she burned incense to her images of Baal, when she put on her earrings and jewels and went out to look for her lovers but forgot all about me,” says the Lord.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.

Micah 7:13

But the land will become empty and desolate because of the wickedness of those who live there.

Revelation 18:23

The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The happy voices of brides and grooms will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the greatest in the world, and you deceived the nations with your sorceries.