Jeremiah 7:34
And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.
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Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste.
Psalms 78:63The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;
Isaiah 3:26and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;
Jeremiah 4:26I beheld, and lo, the fruitful land was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down, before Jehovah, before his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:30-34
The Desolation of Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord : they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which… Read the whole commentary →