16 To make their land (A)desolate and a perpetual (B)hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.

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16 Their land will be an object of horror(A)
    and of lasting scorn;(B)
all who pass by will be appalled(C)
    and will shake their heads.(D)

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13 For (A)I have sworn by Myself,” says the Lord, “that (B)Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a [a]waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual [b]wastes.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:13 ruin
  2. Jeremiah 49:13 ruins

13 I swear(A) by myself,” declares the Lord, “that Bozrah(B) will become a ruin and a curse,[a] an object of horror(C) and reproach;(D) and all its towns will be in ruins forever.”(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:13 That is, its name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that it is cursed.

13 Because of the wrath of the Lord
She shall not be inhabited,
(A)But she shall be wholly desolate.
(B)Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified
And hiss at all her plagues.

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13 Because of the Lord’s anger she will not be inhabited
    but will be completely desolate.(A)
All who pass Babylon will be appalled;(B)
    they will scoff(C) because of all her wounds.(D)

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