Jeremiah 25:37 · KJV
“And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
— Jeremiah 25:37
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, {shall be heard}: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. {desolate: Heb. a desolation}
Jeremiah 25 — Context
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. {the shepherds...: Heb. flight shall perish from the shepherds, and escaping from, etc}
36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, {shall be heard}: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
37And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
38He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. {desolate: Heb. a desolation}
Cross References
Isaiah 27:10-11
Yet the defenced city {shall be} desolate, {and} the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Isaiah 32:14
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; {forts...: or, clifts and watchtowers}