It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Jeremiah 12:11 - American Standard Version 2015 They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They have made it a desolation, and desolate it mourns before Me; the whole land has been made desolate, but no man lays it to heart. American Standard Version (1901) They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. Common English Bible They have devastated her; desolate, she cries out to me in distress: “The whole land is desolate, and no one seems to care.” Catholic Public Domain Version They have squandered it, and it has grieved concerning me. The entire earth has become utterly desolate, because there is no one who understands with the heart." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With desolation is all the land made desolate, because there is none that considereth in the heart. |
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.\par
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil {\i to come}.
The voice of tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.\par
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.\par
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.\par
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, {\i and} my curtains in a moment.
For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.\par
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.\par
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?\par
The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh {\i month}, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.