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10 For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing,
    and for the pastures of the desert a lament,
because they are laid waste so that no man passes through.
    And the sounds[a] of cattle are not heard,
from the birds[b] of heaven to the animals[c]
    they have fled, they are gone.
11 And I will make Jerusalem as heaps of ruins, a lair of jackals,
    and the towns of Judah I will make a desolation, without inhabitants.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:10 Hebrew “sound”
  2. Jeremiah 9:10 Hebrew “bird”
  3. Jeremiah 9:10 Hebrew “animal”
  4. Jeremiah 9:11 Literally “from no inhabitant”