Ezekiel 22:4
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4 You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed and defiled by the idols that you have made; you have brought your days near; the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a disgrace before the nations and a mockery to all the countries.
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2 Kings 21:16
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16 Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he caused Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.(A)
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Ezekiel 22:2
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2 You, mortal, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to it all its abominable deeds.(A)
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Ezekiel 16:57
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57 before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you are a mockery to the daughters of Edom[a] and all her neighbors and to the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.(A)
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- 16.57 Heb mss Syr: MT Aram
Ezekiel 5:14-15
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14 Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.(A) 15 You shall be[a] a mockery and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury and with furious punishments—I, the Lord, have spoken(B)—
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- 5.15 Q ms Gk Syr Vg Tg: MT It shall be
Psalm 44:13-14
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13 You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,
the derision and scorn of those around us.(A)
14 You have made us a byword among the nations,
a laughingstock[a] among the peoples.(B)
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- 44.14 Heb a shaking of the head
1 Thessalonians 2:16
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16 by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath[a] has overtaken them at last.[b](A)
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Matthew 23:32-33
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32 Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors. 33 You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?[a]
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- 23.33 Gk Gehenna
Daniel 9:16
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16 O Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, let your anger and wrath, we pray, turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become a disgrace among all our neighbors.(A)
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Ezekiel 21:28
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28 As for you, mortal, prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord God concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say:
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- 21.28 Cn: Heb to contain
Lamentations 2:15-16
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15 All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
they hiss and wag their heads
at daughter Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of all the earth?”(A)
16 All your enemies
open their mouths against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
they cry: “We have devoured her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
at last we have seen it!”(B)
Jeremiah 44:8
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8 Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have come to settle? Will you be cut off and become an object of cursing and ridicule among all the nations of the earth?(A)
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Jeremiah 24:9
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9 I will make them a horror, an evil thing, to all the kingdoms of the earth—a disgrace, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.(A)
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Jeremiah 18:16
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16 making their land a horror,
a thing to be hissed at forever.
All who pass by it are horrified
and shake their heads.(A)
Psalm 89:41-42
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41 All who pass by plunder him;
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.(A)
42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
you have made all his enemies rejoice.(B)
Psalm 79:4
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4 We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
mocked and derided by those around us.(A)
2 Chronicles 7:20
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20 then I will pluck you[a] up from the land that I have given you,[b] and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.(A)
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1 Kings 9:7
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7 then I will cut Israel off from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.(A)
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Deuteronomy 29:24
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24 they and indeed all the nations will wonder, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused this great display of anger?’(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:37
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37 You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you.(A)
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Numbers 32:14
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14 And now you, a brood of sinners, have risen in place of your fathers, to increase the Lord’s fierce anger against Israel!
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Leviticus 26:32
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32 I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle in it shall be appalled at it.(A)
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