Jeremiah 49:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

Also Edom shall be a desolation: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.

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  • Jer 50:13 : 13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be utterly desolate: everyone who passes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
  • Ezek 35:7 : 7 Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him who passes out and him who returns.
  • Jer 49:13 : 13 For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.
  • Jer 18:16 : 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head.
  • 1 Kgs 9:8 : 8 And at this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly, this is the day we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
  • Ezek 25:13 : 13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
  • 2 Chr 7:20-21 : 20 Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations. 21 And this house, which is exalted, shall be an astonishment to everyone who passes by it; so that they will say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?
  • Isa 34:9-9 : 9 And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall ascend forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl and the raven shall dwell in it: and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation for dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
  • Ezek 35:15 : 15 As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.
  • Zeph 2:15 : 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone that passes by her shall hiss, and shake his hand.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 18:16
    80%

    16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • Jer 19:8
    79%

    8And I will make this city desolate, and an object of scorn; everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

  • Jer 49:18-22
    5 verses
    78%

    18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, nor shall a son of man reside in it.

    19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swellings of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him flee away from her; and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? For who is like me? And who will appoint me the time? And who is that shepherd who will stand before me?

    20Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he will make their habitation desolate with them.

    21The earth is shaken at the noise of their fall, at the cry their noise was heard in the Red Sea.

    22Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be like the heart of a woman in her pangs.

  • Mal 1:4
    77%

    4Though Edom says, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation forever.

  • Obad 1:8-10
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    77%

    8Shall I not in that day, says the LORD, even destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the mountain of Esau?

    9And your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, so that everyone from the mountain of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

    10For your violence against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

  • Jer 49:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15For behold, I will make you small among the nations, and despised among men.

    16Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.

  • Isa 34:9
    77%

    9And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.

  • Ezek 25:12-14
    3 verses
    76%

    12Thus says the Lord GOD; Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;

    13Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

    14And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 35:14-15
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    14Thus says the Lord GOD: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

    15As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

  • Jer 50:13
    76%

    13Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be utterly desolate: everyone who passes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

  • Jer 49:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7Concerning Edom, thus says the LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no longer in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

    8Flee, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

  • Exod 15:15
    74%

    15Then the chiefs of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

  • Obad 1:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Arise, and let us rise up against her in battle.

    2Behold, I have made you small among the nations; you are greatly despised.

  • Num 24:18
    74%

    18And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.

  • Lev 26:32
    73%

    32And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

  • Jer 49:10
    73%

    10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself: his descendants are spoiled, along with his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more.

  • Ezek 33:28
    73%

    28For I will make the land most desolate, and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that no one shall pass through.

  • Ezek 35:7
    73%

    7Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him who passes out and him who returns.

  • Amos 1:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever:

    12But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

  • 1 Kgs 9:8
    72%

    8And at this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?

  • Jer 48:39
    72%

    39They shall howl, saying, 'How it is broken down! How has Moab turned his back with shame!' So Moab shall be a derision and a dismaying to all those around him.

  • Isa 49:19
    72%

    19For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

  • Lam 4:21
    72%

    21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwell in the land of Uz; the cup shall also pass to you, you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.

  • Ezek 5:14
    72%

    14Moreover I will make you a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • Joel 3:19
    72%

    19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

  • Jer 49:13
    72%

    13For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.

  • Ezek 28:19
    72%

    19All who know you among the people shall be astonished at you: you shall be a terror, and never shall you be any more.

  • Jer 50:39
    71%

    39Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.

  • Ps 89:41
    71%

    41All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.

  • Num 20:18
    71%

    18But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword."

  • Ezek 36:5
    71%

    5Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with spiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

  • 2 Chr 28:17
    71%

    17For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.

  • Deut 29:23
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    23And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:

  • Ps 137:7
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    7Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, Tear it down, tear it down, even to its foundation.

  • Jer 48:20
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    20Moab is confounded, for it is broken down. Howl and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is plundered.

  • Zeph 2:15
    71%

    15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone that passes by her shall hiss, and shake his hand.

  • Jer 51:43
    71%

    43Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wilderness, a land where no one dwells, nor does any son of man pass by.