Jeremiah 49:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Edom shall become an object of horror. Passersby recoil in terror, hissing at all its wounds.

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 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.

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; A place of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

Ezekiel 25:13

therefore thus says the Lord God: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it human being and beast alike. I will turn it into ruins from Teman to Dedan; they shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 27:36

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

Ezekiel 35:15

As you rejoiced over the devastation of the heritage of the house of Israel, the same I will do to you: you will become a ruin, Mount Seir, and the whole of Edom, all of it! Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:3

Say to it: Thus says the Lord God: Watch out! I am against you, Mount Seir. I will stretch out my hand against you and turn you into a desolate waste.

Ezekiel 35:7

I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and cut off from it anyone who travels across it and back.

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 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—