Jeremiah 18:16

To make their land a desolation The hissings of age-abiding times,—Every one that passeth by her, shall be astonished and wag his head.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, Unto vanity, have they been burning incense; And it hath caused them to stumble In their ways The roads of age-past times, To walk in by-paths—A way not cast up.

17Like an east wind, will I scatter them before the enemy,—The back and not the face, will I let them see in the day of their distress.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:33When, even you, I scatter among the nations, And make bare after you, a sword, Then shall your land become an astonishment, And your cities become a desolation.

Deuteronomy 28:59then will Yahweh make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed,—plagues great and lasting, and diseases grievous and lasting;

1 Kings 9:8and, this house which had been renowned, shall be desolate, every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and shall whistle,—and men shall say—For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land, and unto this house?

2 Chronicles 29:8Thus hath it come to pass, that, the wrath of Yahweh, hath been upon Judah and Jerusalem,—and he hath delivered them up as a terror and as an astonishment and as hissing, even as, ye, can see with your own eyes.

Psalms 44:14Thou dost make us, A by-word among the nations,—A shaking of the head among the peoples.

Isaiah 37:22this, is the word which Yahweh hath spoken concerning him,—The virgin daughter of Zion, laugheth thee to scorn—mocketh thee, The daughter of Jerusalem after thee doth wag her head,

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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