Jeremiah 19:8 — Bible Verse (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.”
Jeremiah 19:8 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Jeremiah 19:8 in 6 Bible Translations
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Jeremiah 19:8 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.”
Jeremiah 19:8 — World English Bible
Jeremiah 19:8 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. ”
Jeremiah 19:8 — American Standard Version
Jeremiah 19:8 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and doth hiss for all its plagues.”
Jeremiah 19:8 — Young's Literal Translation
Jeremiah 19:8 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing; every one that passeth by shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.”
Jeremiah 19:8 — Darby Translation
Jeremiah 19:8 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“And I will make this citie desolate and an hissing, so that euery one that passeth thereby, shalbe astonished and hisse because of all ye plagues thereof.”
Jeremiah 19:8 — Geneva Bible
Jeremiah 19:8 in Context — Jeremiah 19
6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8 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.
9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
What Does Jeremiah 19:8 Mean?
Jeremiah 19:8 is a verse from the Book of Jeremiah, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Jeremiah chapter 19. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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