Jeremiah 9:11

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:2

They all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to stir up trouble against it.

Psalm 107:43

Who is wise? Let him observe these things, and consider Adonai’s lovingkindness.

Psalm 44:19

Our heart did not turn back, nor did our steps stray from Your path.

Psalm 79:1

A Psalm of Asaph. God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance, defiled Your holy Temple, and reduced Jerusalem to ruins.

Isaiah 13:22

Hyenas will howl in their citadels and jackals in their pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come— her days will not drag on long.

Isaiah 25:2

For You have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a foreigner’s palace a city no more— never to be rebuilt.

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It will be a haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Isaiah 44:26

while confirming the word of His servant, fulfilling the counsel of His messengers, saying of Jerusalem, “She will be lived in” and of the cities of Judah, “They will be built, and I will raise up their ruins,”

Jeremiah 1:15

Behold! I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north.” It is a declaration of Adonai. “So they will come and each will set up his throne at the entry of the gates of Jerusalem, against all her surrounding walls and against all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 10:22

Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion out of the land of the north— to make the cities of Judah desolate, a haunt of jackals.

Jeremiah 16:10

“Now it will come to pass, when You will tell this people all these words, they will say to you: ‘Why has Adonai pronounced all this great evil against us? So what is our iniquity? So what is our sin that we have committed against Adonai our God?’

Jeremiah 25:11

“So this whole land will be a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes—to make them an appalling horror and hissing, a curse as it is this day;

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: ‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become ruins, and the mountain of the House as the high places of a forest.’

Jeremiah 26:9

Why have you prophesied in the Name of Adonai, saying, ‘This House will be like Shiloh, and this city will be an uninhabited ruin?’” Then all the people gathered against Jeremiah in the House of Adonai.

Jeremiah 34:22

Indeed, I will command,” declares Adonai, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a wasteland, with no one living.”

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says Adonai, “The whole land will be wasteland, yet I will not totally destroy it.

Jeremiah 44:2

thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “You have seen all the calamity that I brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a ruin, and no one lives in them,

Jeremiah 49:33

“Hazor will be a lair of jackals, a desolation forever— no one will abide there, nor any son of man dwell there.”

Jeremiah 50:3

For a nation comes up against her out of the land of the north —it will desolate her land. No one will dwell there— they have fled, gone, both man and beast.”

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling for jackals, a horror and a hissing, uninhabited.

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Then why has no healing gone up for the daughter of my people?

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn for no one comes to her moadim. All her gates are desolate. Her kohanim groan, her maidens grieve— she is in bitter anguish.

Lamentations 2:2

My Lord has mercilessly swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. He threw down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah in His fury. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 3:47

Panic and pitfall have befallen us, devastation and destruction.

Leviticus 26:32

I will make the land desolate and your enemies settling there will be astonished at it.

Micah 1:6

So I will make Samaria into a ruin in the countryside, planting places for a vineyard. I will hurl her stones into the valley and will lay bare her foundations.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you Zion will become a plowed field. Yes, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a high place in a forest.

Micah 6:16

Now, you observe the statutes of Omri and every practice of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels. Therefore I will make you a horror, and her inhabitants a hissing, so you will bear the scorn of My people.

Deuteronomy 29:23

“All the nations will say, ‘Why has Adonai done this to this land? Why this great burning anger?’

Revelation 18:2

He cried out with a mighty voice, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a den for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit and for every unclean bird and for every unclean and detestable beast.