Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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.

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.

Holman Bible

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.

International Standard Version

I'll make this city into a desolate place and an object of scorn. All who pass by it will be astonished and will scoff because of all its wounds.

A Conservative Version

And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.

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.

Amplified

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.

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.

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.

Julia Smith Translation

And I set this city for a desolation, and for hissing: every one passing over it shall be astonished and shall hiss over all her blows.

King James 2000

And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; everyone that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

Lexham Expanded 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.

Modern King James verseion

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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.

NET Bible

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 Heart English Bible

I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

The 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;

Webster

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.

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 its plagues.

Youngs 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I will make
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

שׁמּה 
Shammah 
Usage: 39

and an hissing
שׁרקה 
Sh@reqah 
Usage: 7

עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

and hiss
שׁרק 
Sharaq 
Usage: 12

מכּה מכּה 
Makkah 
Usage: 48

References

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

The Valley Of The Slaughter

7 I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth. 8 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. 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will cause them.'

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:16

They make their land desolation. It becomes an object of perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and shake his head.

1 Kings 9:8

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?

Jeremiah 49:13

I take an oath on myself, says Jehovah, that Bozrah will become a pile of rubble. It will become something horrifying, ridiculed, ruined, and cursed. All its cities will lie in ruins permanently.

Jeremiah 50:13

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.

Leviticus 26:32

I will make your land so deserted that your enemies will be shocked as they settle in it.

2 Chronicles 7:20-21

I will uproot Israel from the land I gave them. I will reject this Temple that I declared holy for my name. I will make it an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.

Jeremiah 9:9-11

I will punish them for these things, declares Jehovah. I will punish this nation and I will not be satisfied.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as well as its kings and officials drank from it. When they drank from it, they became wastelands and ruins, something ridiculed and cursed, until today.

Lamentations 2:15-16

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you. They make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. They say: Is this the town that was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the joyous city that dwelled in security. She said in her heart, 'I am! There is no one else!' She has become an object of desolation, a place for wild animals to lie down in. Every one who passes by her will hiss, and wag his hand.

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