Jeremiah 18:16
World English Bible (WEB)
to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.
In context
14 Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
15 For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,
16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.
17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
18 Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
Jeremiah 18:16 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.