Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
a perpetual object of scorn;
everyone who passes by it will be horrified
and shake his head.
New American Standard Bible
An object of perpetual
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And
King James Version
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
International Standard Version
They make their land into a desolate place, an object of lasting scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.
A Conservative Version
to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shake his head.
American Standard Version
to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
Amplified
Making their land a desolation and a horror,
A thing to be hissed at perpetually;
Everyone who passes by will be astounded
And shake his head [in scorn].
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
to make their land an astonishment, a perpetual hissing: every one that passeth by shall be astonished, and shake his head.
Julia Smith Translation
To set their land for a desolation, eternal hissings; every one passing over it shall be astonished and shall shake with his head.
King James 2000
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by it shall be astonished, and shake his head.
Lexham Expanded Bible
To make their land a horror, [an object of] whistling for eternity. All [who] pass by it will be appalled, and he will shake his head.
Modern King James verseion
to make their land desolate and a hissing forever. Everyone who passes by will be amazed, and will wag his head.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherethrough they have brought their land into an everlasting wilderness and scorn: So that whosoever traveleth thereby, shall be abashed, and wag their heads.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
The Emphasized Bible
To make their land a desolation The hissings of age-abiding times, - Every one that passeth by her, shall be astonished and wag his head.
Webster
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and wag his head.
World English Bible
to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
Youngs Literal Translation
To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 18:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Deluded Israel
15
They burn incense to false idols
that make them stumble in their ways
on the ancient roads
and walk on new paths, not the highway.
a perpetual object of scorn;
everyone who passes by it will be horrified
and shake his head.
I will show them
on the day of their calamity.
Cross References
Psalm 22:7
they sneer
Jeremiah 25:9
I am going to send for all the families of the north’
Jeremiah 50:13
she will not be inhabited;
she will become a desolation, every bit of her.
Everyone who passes through Babylon
will be horrified
and scoff because of all her wounds.
Jeremiah 19:8
I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and scoff because of all its wounds.
Jeremiah 49:13
For by Myself I have sworn”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“Bozrah
1 Kings 9:8
Though this temple is now exalted,
Isaiah 37:22
this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:
despises you and scorns you:
Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head
behind your back.
Ezekiel 33:28-29
I will make the land a desolate waste,
Micah 6:16
and all the practices of Ahab’s house
have been observed;
you have followed their policies.
Therefore, I will make you a desolate place
and the city’s
you will bear the scorn of My people.”
Matthew 27:39
Those who passed by were yelling insults at
Leviticus 26:33-34
But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.
Leviticus 26:43
For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
Deuteronomy 28:59
He will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
Deuteronomy 29:23
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in His fierce anger.
2 Chronicles 7:20-21
then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for My name I will banish from My presence;
Psalm 44:14
a laughingstock
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, “Until when, Lord?”
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,
Jeremiah 9:11
a jackals’ den.
I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
an uninhabited place.
Lamentations 2:15-16
ס Samek
scornfully clap their hands
They mock
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth?
Ezekiel 6:14
I will stretch out My hand against them,
Ezekiel 12:19
Then say to the people of the land: This is what the Lord God says about the residents of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their
Mark 15:29
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