Parallel Verses
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.
Holman Bible
a perpetual object of scorn;
everyone who passes by it will be horrified
and shake 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.
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 18:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Deluded Israel
15
And they
To walk in bypaths,
Not on a
An object of perpetual
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And
Before the enemy;
I will
Cross References
Psalm 22:7
They
Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will
Jeremiah 50:13
But she will be
Everyone who passes by Babylon
And will hiss because of all her wounds.
Jeremiah 19:8
I will also make this city a
Jeremiah 49:13
For I have
1 Kings 9:8
And this house will become
Isaiah 37:22
this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:
“She has despised you and mocked you,
The
She has
The daughter of Jerusalem!
Ezekiel 33:28-29
I will
Micah 6:16
And all the works of the house of
And in their devices you
Therefore I will give you up for
And
And you will bear the
Matthew 27:39
And those passing by were
Leviticus 26:33-34
You, however, I
Leviticus 26:43
Deuteronomy 28:59
then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and
Deuteronomy 29:23
‘All its land is
2 Chronicles 7:20-21
Psalm 44:14
A
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, “Lord,
“Until
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,
Jeremiah 9:11
A haunt of
And I will make the cities of Judah a
Lamentations 2:15-16
They
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘
Ezekiel 6:14
So throughout all their habitations I will
Ezekiel 12:19
Then say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, “They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because
Mark 15:29
Those passing by were