16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.


In Context

13 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

14 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

15 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;

16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

18 Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Jeremiah 18:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:16To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:16Their land will be laid waste, an object of lasting scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:16That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:16to make their land an astonishment, a perpetual hissing: every one that passeth by shall be astonished, and shake his head.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and wag his head.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:16To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.