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Jeremiah 22:8

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?

KJV

Et pertransibunt gentes multæ per civitatem hanc, et dicet unusquisque proximo suo : Quare fecit Dominus sic civitati huic grandi ?

Vulgate

καὶ διελεύσονται ἔθνη διὰ τῆς πόλεως ταύτης, καὶ ἐρεῖ ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ Διὰ τί ἐποίησεν Κύριος οὕτως τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ τῇ μεγάλῃ;

LXX

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?

ASV

וְ/עָֽבְרוּ֙ גּוֹיִ֣ם רַבִּ֔ים עַ֖ל הָ/עִ֣יר הַ/זֹּ֑את וְ/אָֽמְרוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ אֶל רֵעֵ֔/הוּ עַל מֶ֨ה עָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ כָּ֔כָה לָ/עִ֥יר הַ/גְּדוֹלָ֖ה הַ/זֹּֽאת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
גָּד֖וֹל
gdvl
verb · 528×
גּוֹיִ֔ם
gvym
noun · 557×
הוּ
hv
noun · 186×
זֹּ֔את
z't
pronoun · 604×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כָּ֣כָה
kkh
adverb · 37×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
עִ֣יר
'yr
noun · 1093×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
עֹבֵ֣ר
'br
verb · 561×
רַב
rb
verb · 458×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 9:8 — 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?
  • 1Kgs 9:8 — 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?
  • 2Chr 7:20 — Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a
  • 2Chr 7:21 — And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
  • Amos 3:9 — Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppres
  • Deut 29:23 — And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, whic
  • Deut 29:24 — Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
  • Ezek 5:15 — So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes
  • Ezek 12:16 — But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that
  • Ezek 14:23 — And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 39:23 — And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their
  • Heb 8:9 — Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded th
  • Jer 5:19 — And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land,
  • Jer 40:2 — And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.
  • Lam 2:15 — All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?