Jeremiah 18:16

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

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15For 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 bypaths, in a way not cast up,

17I 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.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Deuteronomy 28:59then LORD will make thy calamities extraordinary, and the calamities of thy seed, even great calamities, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance.

1 Kings 9:8And though this house is so high, yet shall every man who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss. And they shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

2 Chronicles 29:8Therefore the wrath of LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

Psalms 44:14Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Isaiah 37:22this is the word which LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised thee and laughed thee to scorn. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 18:12-18

People of God Accused and Threatened; Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 600.) 11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. 12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ask ye… Read the whole commentary →

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