Jeremiah 19:8 I will devastate this city and make it an object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.

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New International Version (©1984)
I will devastate this city and make it an object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I will reduce Jerusalem to ruins, making it a monument to their stupidity. All who pass by will be astonished and will gasp at the destruction they see there.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will devastate this city. It will become something to hiss at. Everyone who goes by it will be stunned and hiss with contempt at all the disasters that happen to it.

King James Bible
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

American King James Version
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

American Standard Version
And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

Bible in Basic English
And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make this city an astonishent, and a hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

Darby Bible Translation
And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing; every one that passeth by shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

English Revised Version
And I will make this city an astonishment, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

World English Bible
I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

Young's Literal Translation
and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and doth hiss for all its plagues.

Geneva Study Bible

And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8. (See on [916]Jer 18:16).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:1-9 The prophet must give notice of ruin coming upon Judah and Jerusalem. Both rulers and ruled must attend to it. That place which holiness made the joy of the whole earth, sin made the reproach and shame of the whole earth. There is no fleeing from God's justice, but by fleeing to his mercy.

1 Kings 9:8 "And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

2 Chronicles 7:21 "As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?'

Jeremiah 18:16 To make their land a desolation, An object of perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head.

Jeremiah 49:13 "For I have sworn by Myself," declares the LORD, "that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins."

Jeremiah 50:13 "Because of the indignation of the LORD she will not be inhabited, But she will be completely desolate; Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified And will hiss because of all her wounds. (NASB ©1995)

Appalled Astonished Astonishment Cause Desolate Desolation Disasters Goes Hiss Hissed Hissing Horrified Horror Object Overcome Pass Passer Passes Passeth Plagues Scoff Scorn Sounds Surprise Thereby Thereof Town Troubles Wonder Wounds

Appalled Astonished Astonishment Cause City Desolate Desolation Devastate Disasters Goes Hiss Hissed Hissing Horrified Horror Object Overcome Passes Passeth Plagues Scoff Scorn Sounds Surprise Thereby Thereof Troubles Wonder Wounds

And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

See on ch. 9:9-11 18:16 25:18 49:13 50:13 Le 26:32 1Ki 9:8 2Ch 7:20,21 La 2:15,16 Zep 2:15

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