Jeremiah 9:12
Jeremiah chapter 9 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 29:22
And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick;
- Deuteronomy 32:29
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
- Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
- Psalms 107:43
Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; And they will consider the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah.
- Jeremiah 5:19
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say unto them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
- Revelation 1:3
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.