Jeremiah 18:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn. All who pass by it are appalled and shake their heads.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    to make{H7760} their land{H776} an astonishment,{H8047} and a perpetual{H5769} hissing;{H8292} every one that passeth{H5674} thereby shall be astonished,{H8074} and shake{H5110} his head.{H7218}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    To make{H7760}{(H8800)} their land{H776} desolate{H8047}, and a perpetual{H5769} hissing{H8292}{(H8675)}{H8292}; every one that passeth{H5674}{(H8802)} thereby shall be astonished{H8074}{(H8799)}, and wag{H5110}{(H8686)} his head{H7218}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Where thorow they haue brought their londe in to an euerlastinge wildernesse and scorne: So yt who so euer trauayleth ther by, shalbe abashed, and wagge their heades.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    To make their land desolate and a perpetual derision, so that euery one that passeth thereby, shalbe astonished and wagge his head,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Wherethrough they haue brought their lande into an euerlastyng wildernesse and scorne: so that whosoeuer trauayleth therby, shalbe abashed, and wagge their heades.

  • Authorized 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 22:7 : 7 All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
  • Jer 50:13 : 13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be utterly desolate: everyone who passes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
  • Jer 49:13 : 13 For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.
  • 1 Kgs 9:8 : 8 And at this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?
  • Ezek 33:28-29 : 28 For I will make the land most desolate, and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that no one shall pass through. 29 Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.
  • Jer 19:8 : 8 And I will make this city desolate, and an object of scorn; everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
  • Matt 27:39 : 39 And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads,
  • 2 Chr 7:20-21 : 20 Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations. 21 And this house, which is exalted, shall be an astonishment to everyone who passes by it; so that they will say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?
  • Isa 37:22 : 22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly, this is the day we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
  • Ezek 6:14 : 14 So I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
  • Ezek 12:19 : 19 And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with desolation, that her land may be desolate from all that is in it, because of the violence of all who dwell therein.
  • Ps 44:14 : 14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
  • Isa 6:11 : 11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,
  • Lev 26:33-34 : 33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy its Sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.
  • Lev 26:43 : 43 The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
  • Deut 28:59 : 59 Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance.
  • Deut 29:23 : 23 And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:
  • Mark 15:29 : 29 And those who passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, you who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

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