Jeremiah 18:16

To make their land a desolation, A perpetual hissing; Every one that passeth through it shall be amazed, And shake his head.

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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

15Yet my people have forgotten me, And burned incense to vanity; They stumble in their paths, the old ways, And walk in ways that have not been thrown up,

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

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Cross References

Psalms 44:14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, And causest the people to shake their heads at us.

Isaiah 37:22This is the word which Jehovah hath spoken against him. The virgin, the daughter of Zion, despiseth thee; she laugheth thee to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head after 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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