“They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 12 contains 17 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.