Jeremiah 9:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, so that they may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

Cross References

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Psalm 107:43

Let those who are wise pay attention to these things and consider the steadfast love of the Lord.

Isaiah 42:23

Who among you will give heed to this; who will attend and listen for the time to come?

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 23:16

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you; they are deluding you. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:22

But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.

Jeremiah 23:28

Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let the one who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:20

Hear, O women, the word of the Lord, and let your ears receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a dirge and each to her neighbor a lament.

Ezekiel 14:23

They shall console you when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that it was not without cause that I did all that I have done in it, says the Lord God.

Hosea 14:9

Those who are wise understand these things; those who are discerning know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

Hosea 4:10

They shall eat but not be satisfied; they shall prostitute themselves but not multiply, because they have forsaken the Lord to devote themselves to

Joel 1:11

Be dismayed, you farmers; wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, for the crops of the field are ruined.

Zephaniah 3:6

I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without people, without inhabitants.

Matthew 24:15

“So when you see the desolating sacrilege, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what their end would be.

Revelation 1:3

Blessed is the one who reads the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.