Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate; every one that goeth by Babylon shall be appalled and hiss at all her plagues.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Job 27:23Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Jeremiah 18:16To make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
Jeremiah 25:12And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 51:37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Habakkuk 2:6Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say: 'Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with many pledges!'
Zechariah 1:15and I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped for evil.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:10-21
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord . 11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the… Read the whole commentary →