Jeremiah 22:8
 Jeremiah 22:8 
New International Version (© 2011)
"People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?'

King James Bible
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?

American Standard Version
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?

Young's Literal Translation
And many nations have passed by this city, And they have said, each to his neighbour, For what hath Jehovah done thus to this great city?

Jeremiah 22:8 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Many nations shall pass - These words seem borrowed from Deuteronomy 29:22, etc.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 29:23-25 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein...

1 Kings 9:8,9 And at this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say...

2 Chronicles 7:20-22 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...

Lamentations 2:15-17 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying...

Lamentations 4:12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world...

Daniel 9:7 O LORD, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah...

Jeremiah 22:8 Parallel Commentaries
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Deuteronomy 29:24 All the nations will ask: "Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?"
1 Kings 9:8 This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'
1 Kings 9:9 People will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them--that is why the LORD brought all this disaster on them.'"
2 Chronicles 7:20 then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
Jeremiah 16:10 "When you tell these people all this and they ask you, 'Why has the LORD decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the LORD our God?'
Jeremiah 40:2 When the commander of the guard found Jeremiah, he said to him, "The LORD your God decreed this disaster for this place.
Ezekiel 5:15 You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the LORD have spoken.