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Jeremiah 18:16

Jeremiah chapter 18 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

to 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 · 1611

To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby 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,