Jeremiah 4:26 Cross References

Jeremiah 4:26

26: I looked, and the fertile fields had become a wilderness. The cities lay in ruins, crushed by the LORD's fierce anger.

He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.

In that day the Lord will take this "razor"--these Assyrians you have hired to protect you--and use it to shave off everything: your land, your crops, and your people.
When they finally stop plundering, a farmer will be fortunate to have a cow and two sheep left.
The few people still left in the land will live on curds and wild honey because that is all the land will produce.
In that day the lush vineyards, now worth as much as a thousand pieces of silver, will become patches of briers and thorns.
The entire land will be one vast brier patch, a hunting ground overrun by wildlife.

"Judah wilts; her businesses have ground to a halt. All the people sit on the ground in mourning, and a great cry rises from Jerusalem.
The nobles send servants to get water, but all the wells are dry. The servants return with empty pitchers, confused and desperate, covering their heads in grief.
The ground is parched and cracked for lack of rain. The farmers are afraid; they, too, cover their heads.
The deer abandons her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
The wild donkeys stand on the bare hills panting like thirsty jackals. They strain their eyes looking for grass to eat, but there is none to be found."

But the LORD Almighty has sealed your awful fate. With my own ears I heard him say, "Many beautiful homes will stand deserted, the owners dead or gone.
Ten acres of vineyard will not produce even six gallons of wine. Ten measures of seed will yield only one measure of grain."

They will find its soil turned into sulfur and salt, with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It will be just like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his anger.
The surrounding nations will ask, `Why has the LORD done this to his land? Why was he so angry?'
"And they will be told, `This happened because the people of the land broke the covenant they made with the LORD, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
They turned to serve and worship other gods that were foreign to them, gods that the LORD had not designated for them.
That is why the LORD's anger burned against this land, bringing down on it all the curses recorded in this book.

So because of you, Mount Zion will be plowed like an open field; Jerusalem will be reduced to rubble! A great forest will grow on the hilltop, where the Temple now stands.

No wonder you are greatly feared! Who can stand before you when your anger explodes?

How long must this land weep? Even the grass in the fields has withered. The wild animals and birds have disappeared because of the evil in the land. Yet the people say, "The LORD won't do anything!"

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