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Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

Also Edom {H123} shall be a desolation {H8047}: every one that goeth {H5674} by it shall be astonished {H8074}, and shall hiss {H8319} at all the plagues {H4347} thereof.

Edom will become an object of horror; everyone passing by will whistle in astonishment at all its disasters.

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

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Cross-References

  • Ezekiel 35:7 (6 votes)

    Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

  • Jeremiah 50:13 (5 votes)

    Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

  • Jeremiah 49:13 (4 votes)

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

  • Jeremiah 51:37 (3 votes)

    And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

  • Jeremiah 18:16 (3 votes)

    To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

  • 1 Kings 9:8 (3 votes)

    And at this house, [which] is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

  • Micah 6:16 (2 votes)

    For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.