Jeremiah 9 · Verse 11

Jeremiah 9:11

And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 9:11, King James Version

Jeremiah 9:11 in other translations

BSB“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
WEB“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
ASVAnd I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
YLTAnd I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.
DARBYAnd I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
BBEAnd I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.
WebsterAnd I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

What does Jeremiah 9:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. And--omit "And." Jehovah here resumes His speech from Jr 9:9. heaps--(see on Is 25:2). dragons--jackals.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 A den of dragons - תנים tannim is supposed to mean here jackals; the chakal is a beast frequent in the east, an attendant on the lion, the refuse of whose prey he devours. It is an animal that seems to have been bred originally between the wolf and the dog. The original is sometimes interpreted, dragons, whales, etc.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 9:1-11

The people are corrected, Jerusalem is destroyed. (Jr 9:1-11) The captives suffer in a foreign land. (Jr 9:12-22) God's loving-kindness, He threatens the enemies of his people. (Jr 9:23-26) Verses 1-11 Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without communion with God, through Christ Jesus, and the influences of the…

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Jeremiah 9:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְנָתַתִּ֧יve.na.ta.Tiand I will makeH5414
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֛םye.ru.sha.LimJerusalemH3389
לְגַלִּ֖יםle.ga.Liminto heaps of stonesH1530
מְע֣וֹןme.'ona habitation ofH4583
תַּנִּ֑יםta.NimjackalsH8577
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
עָרֵ֧י'a.Rei[the] cities ofH5892
יְהוּדָ֛הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
אֶתֵּ֥ן'e.TenI will makeH5414
שְׁמָמָ֖הshe.ma.Maha wasteH8077
מִבְּלִ֖יmi.be.Libecause notH1097
יוֹשֵֽׁב\׃\ \סyo.ShevinhabitantH3427

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Cross references for Jeremiah 9:11

  • Isaiah 25:2

    For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

  • Jeremiah 10:22

    Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

  • Isaiah 34:13

    And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

  • Isaiah 13:22

    And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

  • Jeremiah 51:37

    And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

  • Jeremiah 25:11

    And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

  • Lamentations 2:7-8

    The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast. The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

  • Lamentations 2:2

    The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

  • Jeremiah 34:22

    Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

  • Jeremiah 26:18

    Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

  • Psalms 79:1

    A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jerusalem.
26:18; 51:37; Ne 4:2; Ps 79:1; Isa 25:2; Mic 1:6; 3:12
a den.
10:22; Isa 13:22; 34:13; Re 18:2
the cities.
34:22; Isa 44:26; La 2:2,7,8
desolate. Heb. desolation.
25:11,18; La 3:47; Mic 6:16

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Context

  • Jeremiah 9:10

    For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

  • Jeremiah 9:11

    And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

  • Jeremiah 9:12

    Who 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?

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Jeremiah 9:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y pondré á Jerusalem en montones, por morada de culebras; y pondré las ciudades de Judá en asolamiento, que no quede morador.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Qui est l’homme sage? qu’il comprenne cela. Et celui à qui la bouche de l’ Éternel a parlé, qu’il le déclare! Pourquoi le pays périt-il, et est-il brûlé comme un désert, de sorte que personne n’y passe?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ich werde Jerusalem zu Steinhaufen machen, zur Wohnung der Schakale, und die Städte von Juda zur Wüste machen, ohne Bewohner. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et dabo Jerusalem in acervos arenæ, et cubilia draconum: et civitates Juda dabo in desolationem, eo quod non sit habitator.