I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds. Cross References Leviticus 26:32 And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled. Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you. Deuteronomy 29:22 Then the generation to come--your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land--will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it. 1 Kings 9:8 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?' 2 Chronicles 7:21 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?' Jeremiah 18:16 They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads. Jeremiah 49:13 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." Jeremiah 50:13 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. Lamentations 2:15 All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?" Ezekiel 27:36 Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.'" Micah 6:16 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 the nations." Zephaniah 2:15 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. Treasury of Scripture And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. See on ch. Jeremiah 9:9-11 Jeremiah 18:16 Jeremiah 25:18 |