Jeremiah 49:17 ““Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalle…”

Jeremiah 49:17

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

World English Bible

“Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues.

American Standard Version

And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

Geneva Bible 1599

Also Edom shall be desolate: euery one that goeth by it, shall be astonished, and shall hisse at all the plagues thereof,

Darby Translation

And Edom shall be an astonishment: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, because of all the plagues thereof.

Young's Literal Translation

And Edom hath been for a desolation, Every passer by her is astonished, And doth hiss because of all her plagues.

Bible in Basic English

And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

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Cross references

“Edom”

Ezekiel 35:7 Jeremiah 49:13 Isaiah 34:9–15 Ezekiel 25:13 Ezekiel 35:15

Ezekiel 35:7 · BSB

I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

Jeremiah 49:13 · BSB

For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

Isaiah 34:9–15 · BSB

Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

Ezekiel 25:13 · BSB

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 35:15 · BSB

As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

“every”

Jeremiah 50:13 Jeremiah 18:16

Jeremiah 50:13 · BSB

Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.

Jeremiah 18:16 · BSB

They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

“shall hiss”

Jeremiah 51:37 1 Kings 9:8 Micah 6:16 Zephaniah 2:15 2 Chronicles 7:20 2 Chronicles 7:21

Jeremiah 51:37 · BSB

Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

1 Kings 9:8 · BSB

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

Micah 6:16 · BSB

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of th…

Zephaniah 2:15 · BSB

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

2 Chronicles 7:20 · BSB

then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

2 Chronicles 7:21 · BSB

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

18As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

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