Jeremiah 18:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
In context
14 Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
15 Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
16 They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
17 I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
18 Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
Jeremiah 18:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
- KJV King James Version
- To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
- WEB World English Bible
- to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.
- ASV American Standard Version
- to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.
- DBY Darby Translation
- to make their land an astonishment, a perpetual hissing: every one that passeth by shall be astonished, and shake his head.
- WBS Webster Bible
- To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and wag his head.