Jeremiah 14:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.”
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““Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Mourned hath Judah, and her gates have languished, They have mourned to the earth, And the cry of Jerusalem hath gone up.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 14:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 2:24So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- 1 Samuel 5:12Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
- 1 Samuel 9:16“At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him leader over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”
- Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
- Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
- Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
- Isaiah 15:5My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
- Isaiah 24:4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
- Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Isaiah 24:11In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
- Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
- Jeremiah 4:28Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
- Jeremiah 8:21For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
- Jeremiah 11:11Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
- Jeremiah 12:4How 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.”
- Jeremiah 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
- Lamentations 2:9Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
- Lamentations 4:8But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
- Lamentations 5:10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
- Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
- Joel 1:10The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
- Joel 1:11Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
- Joel 1:14Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
- Joel 2:6Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.
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