Jeremiah 19:8

Jeremiah 19:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And 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.
• New International Version (NIV)I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I will make this city desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

Context of Jeremiah 19:8

6So I tell you this: A time will soon come when people do not call this place Topheth or Ben-Hinnom Valley. Instead, they will call it Death Valley. 7I will spoil all the ideas that the people of Judah and Jerusalem have. In this place I will put them under the power of their enemies. Their enemies will kill them in war. I will give their dead bodies as food to the birds and the wild animals. I will make this city a heap of stones. People will see how disgusting my people are. Everybody who goes near there will be very surprised. They will see all the terrible trouble that has happened to the city and they will insult it. 9Enemies will make their camp all around the city, so that they can kill the people who live there. The people will not have any food to eat. They will be so hungry that they will eat their own children and they will eat each other.” 10Then, Jeremiah, take the pot that you bought. Break it in front of all those people who are there with you.

Jeremiah 19:8 word by word

וְשַׂמְתִּי֙ אֶת־הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֔את לְשַׁמָּ֖ה וְלִשְׁרֵקָ֑ה כֹּ֚ל עֹבֵ֣ר עָלֶ֔יהָ יִשֹּׁ֥ם וְיִשְׁרֹ֖ק עַל־כָּל־מַכֹּתֶֽהָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And I will makeשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: makeH7760
• this cityעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• desolateשַׁמָּהshammâh · horror: appalledH8047
• and an hissingשְׁרֵקָהsherêqâh · hissingH8322
• every one that passethעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• thereby shall be astonishedשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: appalledH8074
• and hissשָׁרַקshâraq · to whistleH8319
• because of all the plaguesמַכָּהmakkâh makkeh · woundH4347

Cross-references for Jeremiah 19:8

• Jeremiah 9:9I must certainly punish them for what they have done. I will pay back this wicked nation for their sins.’ That is what the Lord says.
• Jeremiah 18:16So I will cause their land to become a terrible place. People will always see how disgusting my people are. Everybody who goes near there will be very surprised. They will shake their heads and they will insult my people.
• Jeremiah 25:18I went to Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah. I made the people of Judah, its kings and its officers drink from the cup. It was to destroy them all. Judah would become a terrible place. People would see that its people are very foolish. They would use their name as a curse. That is already happening today.
• Jeremiah 49:13I, the Lord, promise you this, with the authority of my own name: Bozrah city will become a heap of stones. The people of other nations will think that it is disgusting. They will laugh at it. They will use its name as a curse. All the towns and villages around it will be heaps of stones for ever.’
• Jeremiah 50:13Nobody will live in Babylon, because I, the Lord, am very angry with it. It will be only a heap of stones. Everyone who goes that way will see that it is a disgusting place. They will insult Babylon, because of the terrible troubles that have happened to it.’
• Leviticus 26:32God will destroy the land. He will cause the enemies who live in your land to hate it.
• 1 Kings 9:8This temple will became a heap of stones. Everyone who sees it will be very surprised. They will laugh about it! They will ask, “Why has the Lord destroyed this land and this temple?”
• 2 Chronicles 7:20I will remove the people from the land that I have given to them. I will turn away from this temple that I have made a special place for my people to worship me. People from all the other nations will insult them and they will laugh at them.
• Lamentations 2:15Everyone who goes by laughs at you. They are happy because you are sad. They see how the enemy has destroyed everything in Jerusalem. ‘Surely this cannot be the city that men called most beautiful,’ they say. ‘People have said that this city is the best city on earth.’
• Zephaniah 2:15All this will happen to that city, the proud city. That city's people said in their minds, ‘Here we are. We are greater than all the other people.’ But then, other people will destroy their city! Only bits of it will still be there. Then wild animals will come and they will lie down in it. People will see this. So any people who pass by the city will make noises with their lips. And they will hold their fists up. In this way, they will show that they think bad things about the city.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 19:8

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-15Jeremiah performed another parable (see Jeremiah 13:1–14) to show Judah's leaders that the Lord would completely destroy their idolatrous and violent nation.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. (See on Jr 18:16).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 19:8

• Instruction
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In the dictionaries

• Ancient
• Bottle
• Harden
• Hissing
• Void
• Hiss
• Philemon, Epistle to

Commentaries on Jeremiah 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings