Jeremiah 19:8

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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.

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KJV

King James Version

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.

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WEB

World English Bible

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.

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ASV

American Standard Version

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.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Jeremiah 19

⁶ So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

⁷ And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

⁸ 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.

⁹ I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

¹⁰ Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

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