King James Version
Jeremiah 49:17 in the King James Version says “Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues there...” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 49 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.”
Jeremiah 49:17 · KJV
For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run 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 that will stand before me? appoint me: or, convent me in judgment?
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to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“Also Edom”
H123edom, the elder twin-brother of jacob; hence the region (idumaea) occupied by him
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“every one that goeth”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“by it shall be astonished”
H8074to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e., devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
“and shall hiss”
H8319properly, to be shrill, i.e., to whistle or hiss (as a call or in scorn)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“at all the plagues”
H4347a blow (in 2 chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication, a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
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