Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
The herbs
The beasts
General references
Bible References
Long
Jeremiah 9:10
I will take up a weeping and a wailing for the mountains, and a mourning for the pastures of the wilderness; because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourns, and its gates droop. They are black to the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
Jeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of adulterers. Yes, because of cursing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their power is not right.
The herbs
Psalm 107:34
a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Joel 1:10
The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up; the oil tree droops.
The beasts
Jeremiah 4:25
I looked, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens had fled.
Jeremiah 7:20
Therefore so says the Jehovah God; Behold, My anger and My fury shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be put out.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall droop, with the beasts of the field and with the birds of the heavens. Yes, the fish of the sea shall also be taken away.
Habakkuk 3:17
Though the fig tree shall not blossom, and fruit is not on the vines; the labor of the olive fails, and the fields yield no food. The flock is cut off from the fold, and no herd is in the stalls;
Romans 8:22
And we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
He
Jeremiah 5:13
And the prophets shall become wind, and the Word is not in them; so it shall be done to them.
Psalm 50:21
These things you have done, and I have kept silence; you thought that I was like yourself, but I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes.
Ezekiel 7:2
And you, son of man, so says the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.
General references
Genesis 7:21
And all flesh that moved upon the face of the earth died, of birds, of cattle, of animal, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth; and every man,
Joel 1:18
How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are troubled because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are destroyed.