“to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 18 contains 23 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.