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Jeremiah 19:8

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   War;   Thompson Chain Reference - Desolation;   Jerusalem;   The Topic Concordance - Forsaking;   Idolatry;   Paganism;   Sacrifice;   Violence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Murder;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Prophets;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Hell;   Jerusalem;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bottle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ben-Hinnom;   Hiss;   Jeremiah;   Tophet;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hinnom, Valley of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hiss;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moloch;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hiss;   Mouth;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bottle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Plague;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and scoff because of all its wounds.
Hebrew Names Version
I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
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
"I will also turn this city into an object of horror and hissing; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and hiss because of all its disasters.
New Century Version
I will completely destroy this city. People will make fun of it and shake their heads when they pass by. They will be shocked when they see how the city was destroyed.
Amplified Bible
"I will make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be amazed and will hiss [in scorn] because of all its plagues and disasters.
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 the plagues of it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will make this citie desolate and an hissing, so that euery one that passeth thereby, shalbe astonished & hisse because of all ye plagues thereof.
Legacy Standard Bible
I will also make this city an object of horror and of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and hiss because of all its slaughtering.
Berean Standard Bible
I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be horrified, and will scoff because of all its wounds.
Contemporary English Version
I will turn Jerusalem into a pile of rubble, and every passerby will be shocked and horrified and will make insulting remarks.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will make this city an object of horror and ridicule; everyone passing by will be horrified and will ridicule it because of all its wounds.
Darby 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.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will completely destroy this city. People will whistle and shake their heads when they pass by Jerusalem. They will be shocked when they see how the city was destroyed.
George Lamsa Translation
And I will make this city desolate and a hissing; so that every one who passes by it shall be horrified and hiss because of all its catastrophes.
Good News Translation
I will bring such terrible destruction on this city that everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed.
Lexham English Bible
And I will make this city a horror, and an object of hissing, everyone who passes by it will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its wounds.
Literal Translation
And I will make this city a waste and a hissing. Everyone who passes by shall be amazed and shall hiss because of all its plagues.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And I wil make this cite so desolate, ad despysed: that who so goeth there by, shal be abashed & geast vpon her, because of all hir plages.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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;
King James Version (1611)
And I will make this citie desolate and an hissing: euery one that passeth thereby shalbe astonished and hisse, because of all the plagues thereof.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I will make this citie so desolate and despised, that whosoeuer goeth thereby shalbe abashed, and iest vpon her, because of all her plagues.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal sette this citee in to wondring, and in to hissing; ech that passith bi it, schal wondre, and hisse on al the veniaunce therof.
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.
New English Translation
I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.
New King James Version
I will make this city desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
New Living Translation
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.
New Life Bible
I will make this city a waste place, and people will make sounds of hate. Everyone who passes by it will be surprised and make strange noises because of all its troubles.
New Revised Standard
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 disasters.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And I will give their dead bodies for food, to the bird of the heavens and to the beast of the earth; And I will make this city a desolation and a hissing, - every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and hiss over all her wounds;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
Revised Standard Version
And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.
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.
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.

Contextual Overview

1 This is what Yahweh said, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; 2 and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you; 3 and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Look, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle. 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with innocent blood, 5 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings to Baal; which I didn't command, nor speak it, neither did it come into my mind: 6 therefore, look, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. 7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those that seek their life: and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth. 8 And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those that seek their life, shall distress them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 9:9-11, Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 25:18, Jeremiah 49:13, Jeremiah 50:13, Leviticus 26:32, 1 Kings 9:8, 2 Chronicles 7:20, 2 Chronicles 7:21, Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 2:16, Zephaniah 2:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:14 - send all Deuteronomy 28:46 - a sign 2 Chronicles 29:8 - to astonishment Job 27:23 - hiss him Jeremiah 12:11 - made it Jeremiah 22:6 - surely Jeremiah 24:9 - to be a Jeremiah 29:18 - to be a curse Jeremiah 51:37 - an hissing Lamentations 3:11 - he hath made Ezekiel 5:14 - I will Ezekiel 27:36 - hiss Micah 6:16 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 18:5
and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen your heart; after that you shall pass on: since you have come to your slave. And they said, Do so, as you have said.
Genesis 19:31
And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:
Genesis 19:38
And the younger, she also bore a son, and named him Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.
Genesis 42:37
And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I don't bring him to you: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again.
Exodus 32:22
And Aaron said, Don't let the anger of my lord wax hot: you know the people, that they are [set] on evil.
Judges 9:15
And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges 19:24
Look, here is my daughter a virgin, and his concubine; I will bring them out now, and humble them, and do with them what seems good to you: but to this man don't do any such folly.
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you don't hide yourself from your own flesh?
Mark 9:6
For he didn't know what to answer; for they became very afraid.
Romans 3:8
and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing,.... An hissing to its enemies; an hissing because desolate; when its walls should be broken down, its houses burnt with fire, and its inhabitants put to the sword, or carried captive:

everyone that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and hiss; surprised to see the desolations of it; that a city once so famous and flourishing should be reduced to such a miserable condition; and yet hiss by way of detestation and abhorrence of it, and for joy at its ruin:

because of all the plagues thereof: by which it was brought to desolation, as the sword, famine, burning, and captivity.


 
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