Jeremiah 9:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’””
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“For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For--a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 9:19 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 18:25Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
- Leviticus 18:28So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
- Leviticus 20:22You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
- Deuteronomy 28:29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
- Isaiah 32:9Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
- Jeremiah 2:14Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
- Jeremiah 4:13Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
- Jeremiah 4:20Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
- Jeremiah 4:30And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
- Lamentations 4:15“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”
- Lamentations 5:2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
- Ezekiel 7:16The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.
- Ezekiel 27:2“Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.
- Micah 1:8Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
- Micah 2:4In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
- Micah 2:10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction!
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