“to make their land an astonishment,and a perpetual hissing.Everyone who passes by it will be astonished,and shake his head.”
Jeremiah 18:16 (WEB)
Context Reading
14Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field?Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? 15For my people have forgotten me.They have burned incense to false gods.They have been made to stumble in their waysin the ancient paths,to walk in byways, in a way not built up, 16to make their land an astonishment,and a perpetual hissing.Everyone who passes by it will be astonished,and shake his head. 17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy.I will show them the back, and not the face,in the day of their calamity. 18Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”