Tree of Life Version
Jeremiah 19:8
8And I will make this city a horror and a hissing—every one passing by will be stunned and hiss because of all her wounds.
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
6“Therefore behold, the days are coming”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“when this place will no longer be called Topheth or The Valley of Ben-Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 7So I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will have them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of them that seek their life. I will give their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth. And I will make this city a horror and a hissing—every one passing by will be stunned and hiss because of all her wounds. 9And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone will eat his companion’s flesh during the siege and distress, which their enemies and those who seek their life will inflict on them. 10“Then you will shatter the jar in the presence of the people who accompany you,
Read all of Jeremiah 19Jeremiah 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 9:9For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, a lament for the desert pastures. For they are so scorched that no one passes through— the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds of the air have fled and the animals are gone.
- Jeremiah 18:16Their land will become a horror, a perpetual hissing— every one passing by will be stunned and shake his head.
- Jeremiah 25:18Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes—to make them an appalling horror and hissing, a curse as it is this day;
- Jeremiah 49:13For I have sworn by Myself” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “that Bozrah will become a horror, a disgrace, a waste and a curse. All its towns will be ruins forever.”
- Jeremiah 50:13Because of Adonai’s wrath, it will be uninhabited, all waste. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled, hissing at all her wounds.
- Leviticus 26:32I will make the land desolate and your enemies settling there will be astonished at it.
- 1 Kings 9:8This House, now so exalted—everyone passing by it will gasp in shock and hiss, saying: ‘Why has Adonai done thus to this land and to this House?’
- 2 Chronicles 7:20then I will uproot them from My land which I gave them, and this House which I have consecrated for My Name I will cast out of My sight. I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass your way clap their hands at you. They hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. “Is this the city of which they said, ‘The perfection of beauty,’ ‘the joy of the whole earth’?”
- Zephaniah 2:15This is the exultant city, dwelling securely, saying in her heart, ‘It’s me--no one else but me!’ How did she become a ruin, an abode for wild beasts? Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
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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
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