Hissing - Not derision, but the drawing in of the breath quickly as men do when they shudder.
Way his head - Or, “shake his head,” a sign among the Jews not of scorn but of pity. The desolation of the land of Israel is to fill people with dismay.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 18:16
Jeremiah 18:16
16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.