Jeremiah 7:34
I will put a stop to the cheerful sounds of celebration and the happy voices of the bride and bridegroom from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the country will be turned into a wasteland.
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Leviticus 26:33I'm going to scatter you among the nations. You will be chased out by armies with swords as your land is ruined and your towns are destroyed.
Psalms 78:63Their young men were destroyed by fire; their young women had no wedding songs.
Isaiah 3:26The gates of Zion will cry and mourn. The city will be like a banished woman sitting on the ground.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, and the vine withers. All the people celebrating groan.
Jeremiah 4:26I looked, and the productive fields were a desert. All the towns were demolished because of the Lord's furious anger.
Jeremiah 16:9This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am going to put a stop right here, while you watch, to any sounds of celebration and joy, the happy voices of the groom and 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 →