Everyone passing by this impressive Temple will be appalled. They will ask: Why did Jehovah do these things to this land and to this Temple?

Many nations will pass by this city. They will say to one another: Why has Jehovah done thus to this great city?

All the nations will say: Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

This house will become a mass of broken walls. Everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds. They will say: Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?

Jehovah was angry with Judah and Jerusalem. He made them something that shocks and terrifies people and that people ridicule, as you can see with your own eyes.

They will ask: 'Why has Jehovah our God done all this to us?' Answer them: You have abandoned me and served foreign gods in your land. So you will serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'

If you ask yourself: 'Why do these things happen to me?' It is because you have so many sins. Your clothes have been torn off and your limbs are bare.

When you tell the people all these things, they will ask you: 'Why does Jehovah threaten us with all these disasters? What have we done wrong? How have we sinned against Jehovah our God?'

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.

This Jehoiakin is like a rejected and broken pot that no one wants. Is that why he and his descendants will be thrown out and cast into another land they have never heard of?

Jehovah said: The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified.

No one will live in Babylon because of Jehovah's anger. It will be completely abandoned. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified and hiss at all its wounds.

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And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

This house

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This house

This house will become a mass of broken walls. Everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds. They will say: Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?

Astonishment

Jehovah was angry with Judah and Jerusalem. He made them something that shocks and terrifies people and that people ridicule, as you can see with your own eyes.
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.
Jehovah said: The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified.
No one will live in Babylon because of Jehovah's anger. It will be completely abandoned. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified and hiss at all its wounds.

Why

All the nations will say: Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'
This house will become a mass of broken walls. Everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds. They will say: Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?
They will ask: 'Why has Jehovah our God done all this to us?' Answer them: You have abandoned me and served foreign gods in your land. So you will serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'
If you ask yourself: 'Why do these things happen to me?' It is because you have so many sins. Your clothes have been torn off and your limbs are bare.
When you tell the people all these things, they will ask you: 'Why does Jehovah threaten us with all these disasters? What have we done wrong? How have we sinned against Jehovah our God?'
Many nations will pass by this city. They will say to one another: Why has Jehovah done thus to this great city?

General references

All the nations will say: Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'
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.
Many nations will pass by this city. They will say to one another: Why has Jehovah done thus to this great city?
Then everyone will know that I, Jehovah, started the fire. It will never be put out.'
Behold, your house is left desolate.
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