Jeremiah 12:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no one lays it to heart.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of everyone, and the living will lay it to heart.

Isaiah 42:25

So he poured upon him the heat of his anger and the fury of war; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perish, and no one considers why; the devout are taken away, while no one understands that it is due to evil that the righteous are taken away.

Jeremiah 10:22

Hear, a noise! Listen, it is coming— a great commotion from the land of the north to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you and on the peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him and have laid waste his habitation.

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they lie in gloom on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Jeremiah 19:8

And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course has been evil, and their might is not right.

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 4:20

Disaster overtakes disaster; the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation, yet I will not make a full end.

Jeremiah 4:28

Because of this the earth shall mourn and the heavens above grow black, for I have spoken; I have purposed; I have not relented, nor will I turn back.

Jeremiah 6:8

Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I shall turn from you in disgust and make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.

Jeremiah 9:10

Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the animals have fled and are gone.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 9:9

Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord, and shall I not bring retribution on a nation such as this?

Joel 1:10

The fields are devastated, the ground mourns, for the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil fails.

Leviticus 26:32

I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle in it shall be appalled at it.

Zechariah 7:5

“Say to all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and in the seventh for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not lay it to heart.

Romans 8:22

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together as it suffers together the pains of labor,