“And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.”
The transformation of Jerusalem into a place of desolation where passersby hiss represents the reversal of the city's status. What was the holy city, the seat of the temple, becomes a byword of disaster. The reaction of passersby—hissing—expresses mockery and contempt. The vision of Jerusalem as desolate and abandoned emphasizes the completeness of judgment: not merely military defeat but the loss of inhabitants and livelihood.
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