Jeremiah 19:8

8 I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. ^[a] All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

Jeremiah 19:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 19:8

And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing
An hissing to its enemies; an hissing because desolate; when its walls should be broken down, its houses burnt with fire, and its inhabitants put to the sword, or carried captive: everyone that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and hiss;
surprised to see the desolations of it; that a city once so famous and flourishing should be reduced to such a miserable condition; and yet hiss by way of detestation and abhorrence of it, and for joy at its ruin: because of all the plagues thereof:
by which it was brought to desolation, as the sword, famine, burning, and captivity.

Jeremiah 19:8 In-Context

6 So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

7 And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

8 I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

10 Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally and a hissing