Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Also Edom shall be a ruin. Everyone who goes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss at all its plagues.
New American Standard Bible
“Edom will become an
King James Version
Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
Holman Bible
“Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be horrified and scoff because of all her wounds.
International Standard Version
"Edom will become an object of horror. Everyone who passes by her will be horrified and will scoff because of all her wounds.
A Conservative Version
And Edom shall become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.
American Standard Version
And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
Amplified
“Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who goes by it will be astonished and shall hiss [scornfully] at all its plagues and disasters.
Bible in Basic English
And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.
Darby Translation
And Edom shall be an astonishment: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, because of all the plagues thereof.
Julia Smith Translation
And Edom was for a desolation: all passing over her shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all her blows.
King James 2000
Also Edom shall be a desolation: everyone that goes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"And Edom will become as a horror, {everyone who passes by it} will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its blows.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Moreover Idumaea shall be a wilderness: whoso goeth by it, shall be abashed, and wonder at all her miserable plagues.
NET Bible
"Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.
New Heart English Bible
"Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.
The Emphasized Bible
So shall, Edom, become an astonishment, - Every one passing by her, will be astonished and hiss, over all her plagues:
Webster
Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all her plagues.
World English Bible
Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Edom hath been for a desolation, Every passer by her is astonished, And doth hiss because of all her plagues.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 49:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Edom
16 Your dreadfulness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah. 17 Also Edom shall be a ruin. Everyone who goes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss at all its plagues. 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor, says Jehovah, no man shall remain there, nor shall a son of man live in it.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of Jehovah it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly a waste. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be amazed and hiss at all her plagues.
Ezekiel 35:7
So I will make Mount Seir a ruin, and cut off from it the one passing through, and the one returning.
Jeremiah 49:13
For I have sworn by Myself, says Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become a ruin, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be wastes forever.
1 Kings 9:8
As to this house which is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss. And they shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?
Jeremiah 18:16
to make their land desolate and a hissing forever. Everyone who passes by will be amazed, and will wag his head.
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a home for jackals, a horror and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
2 Chronicles 7:20-21
then I will pluck them up by the roots out of My land which I have given them. And this house which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and I will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
Isaiah 34:9-15
And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust to brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.
Lamentations 2:15-16
All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
Ezekiel 25:13
therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I will also stretch out My hand on Edom, and will cut man and beast off from it; and I will make it a waste from Teman, even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 35:15
As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, so I will do to you. You shall be a desolation, O Mount Seir and all Idumea, even all of it. And they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, so that I should make you a ruin and its people a hissing; therefore you shall bear the shame of My people.
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the rejoicing city, dwelling confidently, who says in her heart, I am, and no other still is. How she has become a ruin, a resting-place for animals! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss; he shall wag his hand.