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.


In Context

5 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons with fire, burnt-offerings to Baal, that I commanded not, nor spake of, nor did it come up on My heart.

6 Therefore, lo, days are coming — an affirmation of Jehovah — and this place is not called any more, Tophet, and Valley of the son of Hinnom, but, Valley of slaughter.

7 And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,

8 and 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.

9 And I have caused them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his friend they do eat, in the siege and in the straitness with which straiten them do their enemies, and those seeking their life.

10 'And thou hast broken the bottle before the eyes of the men who are going 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:8And 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.

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 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.