(A)Your country is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire;
Strangers devour your land in your presence;
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

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11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”

And He answered:

(A)“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,
The houses are without a man,
The land is utterly desolate,

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18 For wickedness (A)burns as the fire;
It shall devour the briers and thorns,
And kindle in the thickets of the forest;
They shall mount up like rising smoke.

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10 Your holy cities are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

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11 They have made it (A)desolate;
Desolate, it mourns to Me;
The whole land is made desolate,
Because (B)no one takes it to heart.

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“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘You have seen all the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are (A)a desolation, and no one dwells in them,

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So My fury and My anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they [a]are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:6 Or became a ruin

11 I will cut off the cities of your land
And throw down all your strongholds.

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