Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, 8 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. 9 And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his friend they do eat, in the siege and in the straitness with which straiten them do their enemies, and those seeking their life.


Cross References

Jeremiah 18:16

To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

1 Kings 9:8

as to this house, that is high, every one passing by it is astonished, and hath hissed, and they have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

Jeremiah 49:13

For, by Myself, I have sworn, An affirmation of Jehovah, That for a desolation, for a reproach, For a waste, and for a reviling -- is Bozrah, And all her cities are for wastes age-during.

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of the wrath of Jehovah it is not inhabited, And it hath been a desolation -- all of it. Every passer by at Babylon is astonished, And doth hiss because of all her plagues.

Leviticus 26:32

and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been astonished at it.

2 Chronicles 7:20-21

and this house that I have sanctified for My name, I cast from before My face, and make it for a proverb, and for a byword, among all the peoples.

Jeremiah 9:9-11

For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Jehovah, Against a nation such as this doth not My soul avenge itself?

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as at this day.

Lamentations 2:15-16

Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed -- and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: 'Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?'

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the exulting city that is dwelling confidently, That is saying in her heart, 'I am, and beside me there is none,' How hath she been for a desolation, A crouching-place for beasts, Every one passing by her doth hiss, He doth shake his hand!

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