Jeremiah 12:11 “They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the…”

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

They haue layde it waste, and it, being waste, mourneth vnto me: and the whole lande lyeth waste, because no man setteth his minde on it.

Darby Translation

they have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourneth unto me: the whole land is made desolate, for no man layeth it to heart.

Young's Literal Translation

He hath made it become a desolation, The desolation hath mourned unto Me, Desolated hath been all the land, But there is no one laying it to heart.

Bible in Basic English

They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

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Cross references

“made it”

Jeremiah 6:8 Jeremiah 9:11 Jeremiah 10:22 Jeremiah 10:25 Jeremiah 19:8

Jeremiah 6:8 · BSB

Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 9:11 · BSB

“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 10:22 · BSB

Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.

Jeremiah 10:25 · BSB

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 and finished him off; they have devastated his homel…

Jeremiah 19:8 · BSB

I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

“it mourneth”

Jeremiah 23:10 Jeremiah 14:2 Jeremiah 12:4–8 Lamentations 1:1–5 Zechariah 7:5

Jeremiah 23:10 · BSB

For the land is full of adulterers— because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up— their course is evil and their power is misused.

Jeremiah 14:2 · BSB

“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 12:4–8 · BSB

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

Lamentations 1:1–5 · BSB

How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

Zechariah 7:5 · BSB

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

“layeth”

Isaiah 42:25 Ecclesiastes 7:2 Isaiah 57:1 Malachi 2:2

Isaiah 42:25 · BSB

So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 7:2 · BSB

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

Isaiah 57:1 · BSB

The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous are taken away from the presence of evil.

Malachi 2:2 · BSB

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 among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you ar…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

12Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.

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