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Jeremiah 19:8

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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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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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְשַׂמְתִּי֙ve.sam.Tiand I will makeH7760 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הָעִ֣ירha.'Irthe cityH5892 →
הַזֹּ֔אתha.Zot<the> thisH2063 →
לְשַׁמָּ֖הle.sha.Mahinto a wasteH8047 →
וְלִשְׁרֵקָ֑הve.lish.re.Kahand into a hissingH8322 →
כֹּ֚לkoleveryH3605 →
עֹבֵ֣ר'o.Ver[one who] passes byH5674 →
עָלֶ֔יהָ'a.Lei.haat itH5921 →
יִשֹּׁ֥םyi.Shomhe will be appalledH8074 →
וְיִשְׁרֹ֖קve.yish.Rokand he may hissH8319 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
מַכֹּתֶֽהָ׃ma.ko.Te.hawounds itsH4347 →

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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.Jeremiah 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.”1 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?’Lamentations 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?”Ezekiel 27:36Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”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.2 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.Jeremiah 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.Jeremiah 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;Zephaniah 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.2 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?’Deuteronomy 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.Job 27:23It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.Micah 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.”Lamentations 2:15–16All 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?”Jeremiah 9:9–11Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”Leviticus 26:32And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.Jeremiah 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.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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