Jeremiah 9:10
Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.
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Isaiah 49:19For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.
Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.
Jeremiah 4:25Looking, I saw that there was no man, and all the birds of heaven had gone in flight.
Jeremiah 8:18Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
Jeremiah 12:10The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:2-12
The Prophet's Lamentation; Wickedness of Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to… Read the whole commentary →