Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, 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 King James verseion
Also Edom shall be a ruin. Everyone who goes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss at all its plagues.
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.
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 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, 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 Yahweh. 17 Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues. 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Ezekiel 35:7
Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
Jeremiah 49:13
For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.
1 Kings 9:8
Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?'
Jeremiah 18:16
to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without 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 made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Isaiah 34:9-15
Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.
Lamentations 2:15-16
All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Ezekiel 25:13
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 35:15
As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.