Jeremiah 18:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ to make their land become a ruin, a hissing forever – everyone who passes by it is appalled and shakes his head.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Making their land a desolation and a horror, a thing to be hissed at perpetually; everyone who passes by shall be astounded and horrified and shake his head.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ They have ruined their country and brought utter shame on it. All who pass by are shocked and shake their heads.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And so their land has been given over to desolation and to perpetual hissing. Each one who passes by will be astonished and will shake his head.

Jeremiah 18:16 Cross References

1 Kings 9:8

“And this house, which has been exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and hiss, and say, ‘Why has יהוה  done thus to this land and to this house?’

2 Chronicles 29:8

“Therefore the wrath of יהוה  fell upon Yehuḏ

Psalm 109:25

And I, I have become a reproach to them; They see me, they shake their heads.

Psalm 22:7

All those who see Me mock Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Psalm 44:14

You make us a proverb among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

Isaiah 37:22

this is the word which יהוה  has spoken concerning him, “The maiden, the daughter of Tsiyon, has despised you, mocked you; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head behind you!

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “יהוה, until when?” And He answered, “Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, and the houses are without a man, and the land is laid waste, a ruin,

Jeremiah 19:8

“And I shall make this city a ruin, and a hissing – everyone who passes by it is appalled and hisses because of all its plagues.

Jeremiah 25:9

see, I am sending and taking all the tribes of the north,’ declares יהוה, ‘and Neḇ

Jeremiah 29:18

‘And I shall pursue them with the sword, with scarcity of food, and with pestilence. And I shall make them a horror among all the reigns of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach among all the gentiles where I have driven them.

Jeremiah 42:18

“For thus said יהוה  of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 44:12

‘And I shall take the remnant of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 48:27

“And was not Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 49:13

“For I have sworn by Myself,” declares יהוה, “that Botsrah is to become a ruin, a reproach, a waste, and a curse, and all its cities become everlasting wastes.”

Jeremiah 49:17

“And Eḏ

Jeremiah 50:13

“Because of the wrath of יהוה  she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be deserted – all of it. Everyone passing by Baḇ

Jeremiah 51:37

“And Baḇ

Jeremiah 51:43

“Her cities have become a ruin, a dry land and a desert, a land where no one dwells, neither does son of man pass by it.

Jeremiah 9:11

“And I shall make Yerushalayim a heap of ruins, a habitation for jackals; and the cities of Yehuḏ

Lamentations 1:12

“Is it naught to you, All you who pass by? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain, Which has been brought on me, Which יהוה  has inflicted on me In the day of His burning displeasure.

Ezekiel 12:19

“And you shall say to the people of the land, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה  to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and to the land of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 27:36

‘The merchants among the peoples shall whistle at you. You shall become a horror, and be no more, forever.’ ” ’ ”

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy, and you shall say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Because they laid you waste and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the gentiles, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people,”

Ezekiel 6:14

‘And I shall stretch out My hand against them and make the land a wasteland, even more waste than the wilderness toward Diḇ

Leviticus 26:32

‘And I shall lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

Leviticus 26:43

‘For the land was abandoned by them, and enjoying its Sabbaths while lying waste without them, and they were paying for their crookedness, because they rejected My right-rulings and because their being loathed My laws.

Micah 6:16

“For the laws of Omri are strictly observed, and all the works of the house of Aḥ

Matthew 27:39

And those passing by were blaspheming Him, shaking their heads,

Mark 15:29

And those passing by were blaspheming Him, shaking their heads and saying, “Ah! You who destroy the Dwelling Place and build it in three days,

Deuteronomy 28:59

then יהוה  shall bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues, great and lasting plagues, and grievous and lasting sicknesses.

Deuteronomy 29:23

‘All its land is sulphur, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Seḏ