Jeremiah 49:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

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  • Jer 50:13 : 13 Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.
  • Ezek 35:7 : 7 And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings.
  • Jer 49:13 : 13 For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever.
  • Jer 18:16 : 16 Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.
  • 1 Kgs 9:8 : 8 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth? 16 All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.
  • Ezek 25:13 : 13 The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out against Edom, cutting off from it man and beast: and I will make it waste, from Teman even as far as Dedan they will be put to the sword.
  • 2 Chr 7:20-21 : 20 Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples. 21 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?
  • Isa 34:9-9 : 9 And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire. 10 It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever. 11 But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land. 12 The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end. 13 And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches. 14 And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there. 15 The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.
  • Ezek 35:15 : 15 You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.
  • Zeph 2:15 : 15 This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

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  • Jer 18:16
    80%

    16 Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

  • Jer 19:8
    79%

    8 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.

  • Jer 49:18-22
    5 verses
    78%

    18 As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there.

    19 See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?

    20 For this cause give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Edom, and to his purposes designed against the people of Teman: Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.

    21 The earth is shaking with the noise of their fall; their cry is sounding in the Red Sea.

    22 See, he will come up like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Bozrah: and the hearts of Edom's men of war on that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.

  • Mal 1:4
    77%

    4 Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.

  • Obad 1:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8 Will I not, in that day, says the Lord, take away the wise men out of Edom, and wisdom out of the mountain of Esau?

    9 And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.

    10 Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever.

  • Jer 49:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15 For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

    16 ... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

  • Isa 34:9
    77%

    9 And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.

  • Ezek 25:12-14
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    76%

    12 This is what the Lord has said: Because Edom has taken his payment from the people of Judah, and has done great wrong in taking payment from them;

    13 The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out against Edom, cutting off from it man and beast: and I will make it waste, from Teman even as far as Dedan they will be put to the sword.

    14 I will take payment from Edom because of my people Israel; and I will take Edom in hand in my wrath and in my passion: and they will have experience of my reward, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 35:14-15
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    76%

    14 This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you:

    15 You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Jer 50:13
    76%

    13 Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

  • Jer 49:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone?

    8 Go in flight, go back, take cover in deep places, you who are living in Dedan; for I will send the fate of Edom on him, even the time of his punishment.

  • Exod 15:15
    74%

    15 The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water.

  • Obad 1:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her.

    2 See, I have made you small among the nations: you are much looked down on.

  • Num 24:18
    74%

    18 Edom will be his heritage, and he will put an end to the last of the people of Seir.

  • Lev 26:32
    73%

    32 And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

  • Jer 49:10
    73%

    10 I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours.

  • Ezek 33:28
    73%

    28 And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.

  • Ezek 35:7
    73%

    7 And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings.

  • Amos 1:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because his sword was turned against his brother, without pity, and his wrath was burning at all times, and he was angry for ever.

    12 And I will send a fire on Teman, burning up the great houses of Bozrah.

  • 1 Kgs 9:8
    72%

    8 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

  • Jer 48:39
    72%

    39 How is it broken down! how is Moab's back turned in shame! so Moab will be a cause of sport and of fear to everyone round about him.

  • Isa 49:19
    72%

    19 For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

  • Lam 4:21
    72%

    21 Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.

  • Ezek 5:14
    72%

    14 And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.

  • Joel 3:19
    72%

    19 Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

  • Jer 49:13
    72%

    13 For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever.

  • Ezek 28:19
    72%

    19 All who have knowledge of you among the peoples will be overcome with wonder at you: you have become a thing of fear, and you will never be seen again.

  • Jer 50:39
    71%

    39 For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.

  • Ps 89:41
    71%

    41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

  • Num 20:18
    71%

    18 And Edom said, You are not to go through my land, for if you do I will come out against you with the sword.

  • Ezek 36:5
    71%

    5 For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:

  • 2 Chr 28:17
    71%

    17 For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.

  • Deut 29:23
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    23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

  • Ps 137:7
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    7 O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base.

  • Jer 48:20
    71%

    20 Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.

  • Zeph 2:15
    71%

    15 This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

  • Jer 51:43
    71%

    43 Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.