Jeremiah 18:16
What does Jeremiah 18:16 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 18:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
KJV
King James Version · 1611To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890to make their land an astonishment, a perpetual hissing: every one that passeth by shall be astonished, and shake his head.
Context
v.15For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;
v.16This passage
v.17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 7:20
then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
- Jeremiah 19:8
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.
- Psalms 44:14
Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
- Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
- Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
- Isaiah 6:11
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
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