Verse 11

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 42:25 : 25 So He poured out on them His burning anger and the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, yet they did not take it to heart.
  • Jer 23:10 : 10 The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse, the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their power is misused.
  • Jer 14:2 : 2 Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they sit on the ground in mourning, and the cry of Jerusalem rises up.
  • Jer 19:8 : 8 I will make this city desolate and an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.
  • Eccl 7:2 : 2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting, because death is the destination of everyone, and the living should take it to heart.
  • Lam 1:1-5 : 1 How lonely sits the city, once so full of people! She has become like a widow, great among the nations, a princess among the provinces, now a slave. 2 Bitterly she weeps in the night, tears on her cheeks. There is no one to comfort her—all who loved her have betrayed her; they have become her enemies. 3 Judah has gone into exile, suffering and hard service. She lives among the nations but finds no rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in narrow places. 4 The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish. 5 Her adversaries have become her masters; her enemies prosper because the LORD has afflicted her for her many sins. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.
  • Zech 7:5 : 5 Say to all the people of the land and the priests: 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?'
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you do not listen and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name, says the Lord of Hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not take it to heart.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; faithful people are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.
  • Jer 6:8 : 8 Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will become alienated from you and make you a desolation, a land uninhabited.
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 Who is the wise person who may understand this? And to whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, been scorched like a desert with no one passing through?
  • Jer 10:22 : 22 Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the northern land to make the cities of Judah desolate, a dwelling place for jackals.
  • Jer 10:25 : 25 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him, destroyed him, and ruined his homeland.
  • Jer 12:4-8 : 4 How long will the land mourn and the grass in the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts and the birds are swept away. For they said, 'He will not see our end.' 5 If you have raced with footmen and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? And if you feel secure in a land of peace, how will you manage in the thickets of the Jordan? 6 Your own brothers, the house of your father, have betrayed you; even they have called out loudly after you. Do not trust them, though they speak pleasantly to you. 7 I have abandoned my house, I have forsaken my inheritance; I have given the one I love into the hands of her enemies. 8 My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest; she roars against me, therefore I hate her.