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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.
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.
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 18:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Deluded Israel
15 But my people hath so forgotten me, that they have made sacrifice unto vain gods. And while they followed their own ways they are come out of the high street, and gone into a foot way not used to be trodden. 16 Wherethrough they have brought their land into an everlasting wilderness and scorn: So that whosoever traveleth thereby, shall be abashed, and wag their heads. 17 With an East wind will I scatter them, before their enemies. And when their destruction cometh, I will turn my back upon them, but not my face."
Cross References
Psalm 22:7
All they that see me, laugh me to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads.
Jeremiah 25:9
Lo, I will send out, and call for all the people that dwell in the North, sayeth the LORD, and will prepare Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will bring them upon this land, and upon all that dwell therein, and upon all the people that are about them, and will utterly root them out. I will make of them a wilderness, a mockage, and a continual desert.
Jeremiah 50:13
No man shall be able to dwell there, for the fear of the LORD, but she shall be whole desolate. All they that go by Babylon, shall stand still, and be abashed, and shall wonder at all her plagues.
Jeremiah 19:8
And I will make this city so desolate, and despised: that whoso goeth thereby, shall be abashed and jest upon her, because of all her plagues.
Jeremiah 49:13
For why? I have sworn by myself, sayeth the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a wilderness; an open shame; a laughingstock and cursing; and her cities shall be a continual desert.
1 Kings 9:8
And this house which is so high, all that pass by it shall be astonished and shall hiss and say, 'Why hath the LORD dealt on this manner with this land and with this house?'
Isaiah 37:22
this is the answer, that the LORD hath given concerning him: Despised art thou, and mocked, O daughter of Zion, he hath shaken his head at thee, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 33:28-29
For I will make the land desolate and waste, and the pomp of her strength shall come to an end. The mountains in Israel shall be so waste that no man shall travel thereby.
Micah 6:16
Ye keep the ordinances of Omri, and all the customs of the house of Ahab: Ye follow their pleasures, therefore will I make thee waste, and cause thy inhabiters to be abhorred, O my people: and thus shalt thou bear thine own shame.
Matthew 27:39
They that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads
Leviticus 26:33-34
And I will straw you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities desolate.
Leviticus 26:43
For the land shall be left of them and shall have pleasure in her Sabbaths, while she lieth waste without them, and they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds, because they despised my laws and their souls refused mine ordinances.
Deuteronomy 28:59
the LORD will smite both thee and thy seed with wonderful plagues and with great plagues and of long continuance,
Deuteronomy 29:23
how all the land is burnt up with brimstone and salt, that it is neither sown nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, after the overthrowing of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim: which the LORD overthrew in his wrath and anger.
2 Chronicles 7:20-21
then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them, and will cast this house which I have sanctified for my name out of my sight, and will make a proverb and a tale of it among all nations.
Psalm 44:14
Thou makest us to be a byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.
Isaiah 6:11
Then spake I, "LORD, how long?" And he answered, "Until the cities be utterly without inhabiters, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded.
Jeremiah 9:11
I will make Jerusalem also a heap of stones, and a den of venomous worms. And I will make the cities of Judah so waste, that no man shall dwell therein."
Lamentations 2:15-16
{Samekh} All they that go by thee clap their hands at thee - hissing and wagging their heads upon the daughter Jerusalem - and say, "Is this the city that men call so fair, wherein the whole land rejoiceth?"
Ezekiel 6:14
I will stretch mine hand out upon them, and will make the land waste: So that it shall lie desolate and void from the wilderness of Diblath forth, through all their habitations: to learn them for to know, that I am the LORD.'"
Ezekiel 12:19
And unto the people of the land, speak thou on this manner: 'Thus sayeth the LORD God to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to the land of Israel: Ye shall eat your bread with sorrow, and drink your water with heaviness. Yea, the land with the fullness thereof shall be laid waste, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Mark 15:29
And they that went by, railed on him: wagging their heads, and saying, "A wretch, that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days.