Jeremiah 18:16 - Modern English Version

¹⁶ to make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes by shall be astonished and shake 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 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 9:8

And everyone who passes by this high house will be astonished and will hiss, and they shall say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land, and to this house?’

2 Chronicles 29:8

Therefore the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem for a terror, horror, and scorn as you all can see with your own eyes.

Psalm 109:25

I also have become a reproach to them; when they look at me, they shake their heads.

Psalm 22:7

All who see me mock me; they sneer with the lip; they shake the head, saying,

Psalm 44:14

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

Isaiah 37:22

this is the word which the Lord has spoken against him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered: “Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitants, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,

Jeremiah 19:8

I will make this city desolate and a hissing. Everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss because of all the wounds.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and an astonishment, a hissing and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

Jeremiah 42:18

For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: As My anger and My fury have been poured out upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will My fury be poured out upon you when you go to Egypt. And you will be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. And you shall see this place no more.

Jeremiah 44:12

I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they all will be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt. They will even be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They will die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they will be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

Jeremiah 48:27

For was not Israel a derision to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For each time you speak of him, you shake your head in scorn.

Jeremiah 49:13

For I have sworn by Myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all the cities will become perpetual wastes.

Jeremiah 49:17

Also Edom will become a desolation; everyone who goes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its wounds.

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of the wrath of the Lord she will not be inhabited, but shall be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished and hiss at all her wounds.

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:43

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, through which no son of man passes.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins and a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord has inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.

Ezekiel 12:19

And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with carefulness and drink their water with astonishment, because their land shall be desolate from all that is in it, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

Ezekiel 27:36

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you shall be a terror, and you shall cease to be forever.”

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: For good reason they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side so that you might become a possession to the rest of the nations, and you have been taken up on the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people.

Ezekiel 6:14

So, in all their habitations I will stretch out My hand upon them and make the land desolate, indeed, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah. And they shall know that I am the Lord.

Leviticus 26:32

I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell there shall be astonished at it.

Leviticus 26:43

But the land shall be abandoned by them, and enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They shall make amends for their iniquity, because they despised My judgments and because they abhorred My statutes.

Micah 6:16

You observe the statutes of Omri, and every practice of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels. Therefore I will give you over to destruction, and the inhabitants to derision. You will bear the contempt of My people.

Matthew 27:39

Those who passed by insulted Him, shaking their heads,

Mark 15:29

Those who passed by blasphemed Him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days,

Deuteronomy 28:59

then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even great long-lasting plagues, and severe and long-lasting sicknesses.

Deuteronomy 29:23

“The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath.”