Jeremiah 19:8
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8 And I will make this city (A)a horror, (B)a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.
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Jeremiah 18:16
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16 making their land (A)a horror,
a thing (B)to be hissed at forever.
(C)Everyone who passes by it is horrified
(D)and shakes his head.
Jeremiah 49:13
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13 (A)For I have sworn by myself, declares the Lord, that (B)Bozrah shall become (C)a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.”
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1 Kings 9:8
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8 And this house will become a heap of ruins.[a] Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, (A)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’
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- 1 Kings 9:8 Syriac, Old Latin; Hebrew will become high
Zephaniah 2:15
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15 This is the exultant city
(A)that lived securely,
that said in her heart,
“I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
(B)a lair for wild beasts!
(C)Everyone who passes by her
hisses and (D)shakes his fist.
Jeremiah 50:13
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13 (A)Because of the wrath of the Lord she shall not be inhabited
but shall be an utter desolation;
(B)everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled,
(C)and hiss because of all her wounds.
Jeremiah 25:18
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18 (A)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, (B)to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;
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2 Chronicles 7:20-21
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20 (A)then I will pluck you[a] up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it (B)a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21 And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, (C)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’
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- 2 Chronicles 7:20 Hebrew them; twice in this verse
Lamentations 2:15-16
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15 All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
(A)they hiss and wag their heads
at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
(B)the perfection of beauty,
(C)the joy of all the earth?”
16 (D)All your enemies
rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
they cry: “We (E)have swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
now we have it; (F)we see it!”
Jeremiah 9:9-11
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9 (A)Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord,
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?
10 “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains,
and a lamentation for (B)the pastures of the wilderness,
(C)because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
and the lowing of cattle is not heard;
(D)both the birds of the air and the beasts
have fled and are gone.
11 (E)I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
(F)a lair of jackals,
(G)and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”
Leviticus 26:32
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32 And (A)I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be (B)appalled at it.
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