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Jeremiah 19:8

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I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

KJV

And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

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This verse in Jeremiah 19

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

So behold, the days are coming

on Jeremiah 19:6-9

The place “will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter,” and judgment renames the ground. The siege famine in which “they will eat one another’s flesh” is the extremity Deuteronomy 28:53 warns of and Lamentations 4:10 records as having happened.

This site's exposition

I will make this city a desolation

Matthew Henry notes that the city holiness once made the joy of the whole earth, sin has made its shame. Jerome renders the scorn as hissing. The words spoken over the land at 18:16 now fall on Jerusalem itself.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 7 and following) And I will scatter the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will overthrow them with the sword in the presence of their enemies and those who seek their lives, and I will give their dead bodies as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth. And I will make this city a horror, a hissing, and everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its wounds.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), as he had said before, ch. xviii. That place which holiness had made the joy of the whole earth sin had made the reproach and shame of the whole earth.

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The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְשַׂמְתִּי֙and I will make

    vesamtiH7760 →584 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָעִ֣ירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • הַזֹּ֔את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • לְשַׁמָּ֖הinto a waste

    leshamahH8047 →39 times

  • וְלִשְׁרֵקָ֑הand into a hissing

    velishrekahH8322 →7 times

  • כֹּ֚לevery

    kolH3605 →5413 times

  • עֹבֵ֣ר[one who] passes by

    ʾoverH5674 →556 times

  • עָלֶ֔יהָat it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times

  • יִשֹּׁ֥םhe will be appalled

    yishomH8074 →86 times

  • וְיִשְׁרֹ֖קand he may hiss

    veyishrokH8319 →12 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • מַכֹּתֶֽהָ׃wounds its

    makotehaH4347 →48 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Jeremiah 18:16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.6 worksJeremiah 49:13For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”4 works1 Kings 9:8And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’4 worksLamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”4 worksEzekiel 27:36Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”4 worksLeviticus 26:32And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Chronicles 29:8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.4 works2 Chronicles 7:20–21then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.3 worksJeremiah 50:13Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.3 worksJeremiah 25:18to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;3 worksZephaniah 2:15This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.3 works2 Chronicles 7:21And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’3 worksDeuteronomy 29:22Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.3 worksJob 27:23It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.3 worksMicah 6:16You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”3 worksJeremiah 9:9–11Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”2 worksJeremiah 29:18I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.2 worksJeremiah 51:37Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 18:16

    They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 22:7

      All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

    • Jeremiah 25:9

      behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents,…

    • Matthew 27:39

      And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads

  • Through

    1 Kings 9:8

    And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 22:8–9

      And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’

    • Deuteronomy 29:24–26

      So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

  • Through

    Jeremiah 50:13

    Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 18:16

      They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 49:13

    For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 34:6

      The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in…

    • Genesis 36:33

      When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.

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Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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