This house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this house?’
Job 18:20 - New Revised Standard Version They of the west are appalled at their fate, and horror seizes those of the east. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, As they that went before were affrighted. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They [of the west] that come after [the wicked man] shall be astonished and appalled at his day, as they [of the east] that went before were seized with horror. American Standard Version (1901) They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted. Common English Bible Their successors are appalled at what happens to them; their predecessors pull their hair. Catholic Public Domain Version The last will be astonished at his day, and the first will be overcome with horror. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They that come after him shall be astonished at his day: and horror shall fall upon them that went before. |
This house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this house?’
Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.
Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem's fall, how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down! Down to its foundations!”
but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that their day is coming.
making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. All who pass by it are horrified and shake their heads.
Kill all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Alas for them, their day has come, the time of their punishment!
As for you, vile, wicked prince of Israel, you whose day has come, the time of final punishment,
saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”