Jeremiah 9:12

New Living Translation

Who is wise enough to understand all this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it to others? Why has the land been so ruined that no one dares to travel through it?

Cross References

Psalm 107:34

He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.

Psalm 107:43

Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.

Isaiah 42:23

Who will hear these lessons from the past and see the ruin that awaits you in the future?

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adultery, and it lies under a curse. The land itself is in mourning— its wilderness pastures are dried up. For they all do evil and abuse what power they have.

Jeremiah 23:16

This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says to his people: “Do not listen to these prophets when they prophesy to you, filling you with futile hopes. They are making up everything they say. They do not speak for the Lord!

Jeremiah 23:22

If they had stood before me and listened to me, they would have spoken my words, and they would have turned my people from their evil ways and deeds.

Jeremiah 23:28

“Let these false prophets tell their dreams, but let my true messengers faithfully proclaim my every word. There is a difference between straw and grain!

Jeremiah 9:20

Listen, you women, to the words of the Lord; open your ears to what he has to say. Teach your daughters to wail; teach one another how to lament.

Ezekiel 14:23

When you meet them and see their behavior, you will understand that these things are not being done to Israel without cause. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

Hosea 14:9

Let those who are wise understand these things. Let those with discernment listen carefully. The paths of the Lord are true and right, and righteous people live by walking in them. But in those paths sinners stumble and fall.

Hosea 4:10

They will eat and still be hungry. They will play the prostitute and gain nothing from it, for they have deserted the Lord

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.

Zephaniah 3:6

“I have wiped out many nations, devastating their fortress walls and towers. Their streets are now deserted; their cities lie in silent ruin. There are no survivors— none at all.

Matthew 24:15

“The day is coming when you will see what Daniel the prophet spoke about—the sacrilegious object that causes desecration standing in the Holy Place.” (Reader, pay attention!)

Deuteronomy 32:29

Oh, that they were wise and could understand this! Oh, that they might know their fate!

Revelation 1:3

God blesses the one who reads the words of this prophecy to the church, and he blesses all who listen to its message and obey what it says, for the time is near.