8"People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, 'Why has the Lord done such a thing to this great city?'


In Context

5 But if you do not obey these commands, declares the Lord , I swear by myself that this palace will become a ruin.' "

6 For this is what the Lord says about the palace of the king of Judah: "Though you are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, I will surely make you like a desert, like towns not inhabited.

7 I will send destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut up your fine cedar beams and throw them into the fire.

8 "People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, 'Why has the Lord done such a thing to this great city?'

9 And the answer will be: 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and have worshiped and served other gods.' "

10 Do not weep for the dead king or mourn his loss; rather, weep bitterly for him who is exiled, because he will never return nor see his native land again.

Jeremiah 22:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:8And many nations shall pass by this city: and they shall say every man to his neighbor: Why hath the Lord done so to this great city?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why hath the LORD done thus to this great city?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:8Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:8And many nations have passed by this city, And they have said, each to his neighbour, For what hath Jehovah done thus to this great city?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to this great city?