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10 I’ll weep and mourn for the mountains,
    and lament for the desert pastures,
because they are desolate and no one passes through them.
    They don’t hear the lowing of the cattle.
Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled.
    They’re gone!
11 “I’ll make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
    a refuge for jackals.
I’ll make the towns of Judah desolate,
    without inhabitants.”

The Reason for Judgment

12 Who is the wise person who understands this, and to whom has the Lord[a] spoken so that he may declare it? Why is the land destroyed, ruined like the desert, without anyone passing through it?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:12 Lit. the mouth of the Lord