8And I will make this city an astonishent, and a hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because of all the plagues thereof.


In Context

5 And they have built the high places of Baalim, to burn their children with fire for a holocaust to Baalim: which I did not command, nor speak of, neither did it once come into my mind.

6 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom, but the valley of slaughter.

7 And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of Jerusalem in this place: and I will destroy them with the sword in the sight of their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.

8 And I will make this city an astonishent, and a hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

9 And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives shall straiten them.

10 And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that shall go with thee.

Jeremiah 19:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:8And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:8I will devastate this city and make it an object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:8And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:8And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing; every one that passeth by shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:8And I will make this city an astonishment, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:8And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:8I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:8and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and doth hiss for all its plagues.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:8And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.