King James Version
What Does Jeremiah 19:8 Mean?
“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.”
Context
6
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7
And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8
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.
9
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(8) **Desolate, and an hissing.**—See Jeremiah 18:16.
**Because of all the plagues thereof.**—The word is used in its wider, and yet stricter, sense as including all the *blows *or *smitings *(as in Isaiah 14:6) that are thought of as coming from the hand of God.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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