Jeremiah 12:4
How 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.”
How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”
How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- long
- Jeremiah 9:10; Jeremiah 14:2; Jeremiah 23:10
- the herbs
- Psalm 107:34; Joel 1:10–17
- the beasts
- Jeremiah 4:25; Jeremiah 7:20; Hosea 4:3; Habakkuk 3:17; Romans 8:22
- He
- Jeremiah 5:13, 31; Psalm 50:21; Ezekiel 7:2–13