Jeremiah 19:8

New American Bible - revised edition

I will make this city a waste and an object of hissing. Because of all its wounds, every passerby will be horrified and hiss.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:8

and this house shall become a heap of ruins. Every passerby shall gasp in horror and ask, “Why has the Lord done such things to this land and to this house?”

Jeremiah 18:16

Their land shall be made a waste, an object of endless hissing: All passersby will be horrified, shaking their heads.

Jeremiah 25:18

to Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and princes, to make them a ruin and a waste, an object of hissing and cursing, as they are today;

Jeremiah 49:13

By myself I have sworn—oracle of the Lord—Bozrah shall become an object of horror, a disgrace, a desolation, and a curse. Bozrah and all its cities shall become ruins forever.

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of the Lord’s wrath it shall be uninhabited, become an utter wasteland; Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and hiss at all its wounds.

Ezekiel 27:36

The traders among the peoples now hiss at you; You have become a horror, you shall be no more.

Leviticus 26:32

So devastated will I leave the land that your enemies who come to live there will stand aghast at the sight of it.

Micah 6:16

You have kept the decrees of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have walked in their counsels; Therefore I will deliver you up to ruin, and your citizens to derision; and you shall bear the reproach of the nations.

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the exultant city that dwelt secure, That told itself, “I and there is no one else”? How it has become a waste, a lair for wild animals! Those who pass by it hiss, and shake their fists!

Deuteronomy 28:37

and you will be a horror, a byword, a taunt among all the peoples to which the Lord will drive you. Fruitless Labors.

Deuteronomy 29:22

all its soil burned out by sulphur and salt, unsown and unfruitful, without a blade of grass, like the catastrophe of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his furious wrath—