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Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

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ASV

They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

KJV

They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
שָׂמָהּ֙sa.Mahhe has made itH7760 →
לִשְׁמָמָ֔הlish.ma.Mahinto a desolationH8076 →
אָבְלָ֥ה'a.ve.Lahit is in mourningH56 →
עָלַ֖י'a.Laion meH5921 →
שְׁמֵמָ֑הshe.me.MahdesolateH8077 →
נָשַׁ֙מָּה֙na.Sha.mahit has been made desolateH8074 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
הָאָ֔רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
כִּ֛יkiforH3588 →
אֵ֥ין'einthere notH369 →
אִ֖ישׁ'ish[is] anyoneH376 →
שָׂ֥םsam[who] puts [it]H7760 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
לֵֽב׃LevheartH3820 →

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Romans 8:22We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.Isaiah 42:25So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.Jeremiah 23:10For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.Joel 1:10The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.Romans 8:20For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hopeJeremiah 14:2“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.Jeremiah 6:8Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”Zechariah 7:5“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?Jeremiah 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.Jeremiah 12:4–8How 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.”Ecclesiastes 7:2It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.Jeremiah 19:8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.Isaiah 57:1The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.Jeremiah 10:22Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.Jeremiah 9:11“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”Lamentations 1:1–5How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.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.”

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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