Jeremiah 9:11

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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?

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  • Isa 25:2 : 2 For you have turned the city into a heap of ruins, the fortified city into rubble; the palace of foreigners will never be rebuilt.
  • Isa 34:13 : 13 Thorns will grow in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses. It will become a dwelling place for jackals, a home for ostriches.
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals, a horror and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.
  • 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.
  • Isa 13:22 : 22 Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in its luxurious palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
  • Jer 34:22 : 22 Behold, I am giving a command, declares the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it with fire. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without any inhabitants.
  • Jer 25:11 : 11 This entire land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
  • Jer 25:18 : 18 Jerusalem, the towns of Judah, its kings, and officials, to make them a ruin, a desolation, an object of hissing and cursing, as they are today.
  • Jer 26:9 : 9 'Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, “This house will become like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitants”?' And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the LORD's house.
  • Jer 26:18 : 18 'Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah, “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the temple mount will become overgrown with thickets.”'
  • Isa 44:26 : 26 I confirm the word of my servant and carry out the plan of my messengers. I say to Jerusalem, 'You will be inhabited,' and to the cities of Judah, 'You will be rebuilt,' and I will restore their ruins.
  • Neh 4:2 : 2 They all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem and cause confusion.
  • Ps 79:1 : 1 A psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and made Jerusalem a heap of ruins.
  • Lam 2:2 : 2 The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. In his wrath, he has torn down the fortresses of the daughter of Judah, bringing them down to the ground. He has defiled her kingdom and its rulers.
  • Lam 2:7-8 : 7 The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival. 8 The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not turn back his hand from destroying. He caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.
  • Lam 3:47 : 47 Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
  • Mic 1:6 : 6 I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a place for planting vineyards. I will pour her stones into the valley and lay bare her foundations.
  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 You have followed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of the house of Ahab; you have walked in their counsels. Therefore, I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of scorn; you will bear the reproach of My people.
  • Rev 18:2 : 2 He cried out with a mighty voice, saying, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a prison for every unclean spirit, and a cage for every unclean and detested bird.'

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