Jeremiah 18:16

Good News Translation

They have made this land a thing of horror, to be despised forever. All who pass by will be shocked at what they see; they will shake their heads in amazement.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:8

This Temple will become a pile of ruins, and everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed. ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this Temple?’ they will ask.

2 Chronicles 29:8

Because of this the Lord has been angry with Judah and Jerusalem, and what he has done to them has shocked and frightened everyone. You know this very well.

Psalm 109:25

When people see me, they laugh at me; they shake their heads in scorn.

Psalm 22:7

All who see me make fun of me; they stick out their tongues and shake their heads.

Psalm 44:14

You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in scorn.

Isaiah 37:22

the Lord had said, “The city of Jerusalem laughs at you, Sennacherib, and makes fun of you.

Isaiah 6:11

I asked, “How long will it be like this, Lord?” He answered, “Until the cities are ruined and empty—until the houses are uninhabited—until the land itself is a desolate wasteland.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will bring such terrible destruction on this city that everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed.

Jeremiah 25:9

‘I am going to send for all the peoples from the north and for my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I am going to bring them to fight against Judah and its inhabitants and against all the neighboring nations. I am going to destroy this nation and its neighbors and leave them in ruins forever, a terrible and shocking sight. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with war, starvation, and disease, and all the nations of the world will be horrified at what they see. Everywhere I scatter them, people will be shocked and terrified at what has happened to them. People will make fun of them and use their name as a curse.

Jeremiah 42:18

“The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Just as my anger and fury were poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so my fury will be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will be a horrifying sight; people will make fun of you and use your name as a curse. You will never see this place again.’”

Jeremiah 44:12

As for the people of Judah who are left and are determined to go and live in Egypt, I will see to it that all of them are destroyed. All of them, great and small, will die in Egypt, either in war or of starvation. They will be a horrifying sight; people will make fun of them and use their name as a curse.

Jeremiah 48:27

Moab, remember how you made fun of the people of Israel? You treated them as though they had been caught with a gang of robbers.

Jeremiah 49:13

I myself have sworn that the city of Bozrah will become a horrifying sight and a desert; people will make fun of it and use its name as a curse. All the nearby villages will be in ruins forever. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 49:17

The Lord said, “The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified.

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of my anger no one will live in Babylon; it will be left in ruins, and all who pass by will be shocked and amazed.

Jeremiah 51:37

That country will become a pile of ruins where wild animals live. It will be a horrible sight; no one will live there, and all who see it will be terrified.

Jeremiah 51:43

The towns have become a horrifying sight and are like a waterless desert, where no one lives or even travels.

Jeremiah 9:11

The Lord says, “I will make Jerusalem a pile of ruins, a place where jackals live; the cities of Judah will become a desert, a place where no one lives.”

Lamentations 1:12

“Look at me!” she cries to everyone who passes by. “No one has ever had pain like mine, Pain that the Lord brought on me in the time of his anger.

Ezekiel 12:19

Tell the whole nation that this is the message of the Sovereign Lord to the people of Jerusalem who are still living in their land: They will tremble when they eat and shake with fear when they drink. Their land will be stripped bare, because everyone who lives there is lawless.

Ezekiel 27:36

You are gone, gone forever, and merchants all over the world are terrified, afraid that they will share your fate.”

Ezekiel 36:3

“Prophesy, then, and announce what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying. When the neighboring nations captured and plundered the mountains of Israel, everyone made fun of Israel.

Ezekiel 6:14

Yes, I will reach out and destroy their country. I will make it a wasteland from the southern desert to the city of Riblah in the north, not sparing any place where the Israelites live. Then everyone will know that I am the Lord.”

Leviticus 26:32

I will destroy your land so completely that the enemies who occupy it will be shocked at the destruction.

Leviticus 26:43

First, however, the land must be rid of its people, so that it can enjoy its complete rest, and they must pay the full penalty for having rejected my laws and my commands.

Micah 6:16

This will happen because you have followed the evil practices of King Omri and of his son, King Ahab. You have continued their policies, and so I will bring you to ruin, and everyone will despise you. People everywhere will treat you with contempt.”

Matthew 27:39

People passing by shook their heads and hurled insults at Jesus:

Mark 15:29

People passing by shook their heads and hurled insults at Jesus: “Aha! You were going to tear down the Temple and build it back up in three days!

Deuteronomy 28:59

he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.

Deuteronomy 29:23

The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed when he was furiously angry.