Deuteronomy 28:37

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You will become an object of horror, a byword, and a taunt among all the peoples to which the LORD will drive you.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. Israel will then become a proverb and an object of ridicule among all peoples. 8 And this temple, now exalted, will become a heap of ruins. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will hiss, saying, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land and this temple?'
  • Jer 24:9 : 9 I will make them a horror and an object of calamity among all the kingdoms of the earth—a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I drive them.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 I am about to send for all the clans of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them, making them an object of horror, scorn, and perpetual ruins.
  • 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 then I will uproot you from My land that I have given you, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
  • Ps 44:13-14 : 13 You sold Your people for nothing and made no profit from their sale. 14 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
  • Deut 28:28 : 28 The LORD will strike you with madness, blindness, and confusion of heart.
  • Deut 29:22-28 : 22 The whole land will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger. 23 All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?' 24 And they will answer, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. 25 They turned to other gods and worshiped and bowed down to them, gods they did not know and gods the LORD had not given to them.' 26 Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, bringing upon it every curse written in this book. 27 In His anger and great wrath, the LORD uprooted them from their land and cast them into another land, as it is today. 28 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'
  • Zech 8:13 : 13 As you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you will become a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong.

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  • Deut 28:31-36
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    82%

    31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken forcibly from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.

    32Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch with longing eyes all day, but you will be powerless to act.

    33A people you don’t know will eat the fruit of your land and the result of your labor. You will be oppressed and crushed continually.

    34You will go mad because of the things you see with your own eyes.

    35The LORD will strike you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and legs, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

    36The LORD will drive you and the king you set over yourself to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone.

  • Deut 4:27
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    27The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.

  • Deut 28:62-65
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    62You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

    63Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so it will please Him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

    64Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

    65Among those nations, you will find no peace, and no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

  • Deut 28:38
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    38You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.

  • Deut 28:24-25
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    24The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.

    25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Ezek 28:19
    76%

    19All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a terrible end and will exist no more forever.

  • Deut 28:19-20
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    76%

    19Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.

    20The LORD will send curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken Me.

  • Ezek 5:14-15
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    14I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

    15You will be a reproach, a mockery, a warning, and a horror to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and furious rebukes! I, the LORD, have spoken.

  • Deut 28:41-43
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    41You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you, because they will go into captivity.

    42Swarms of insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land.

    43The foreigner who resides among you will rise higher and higher above you, but you will sink lower and lower.

  • Ps 44:14
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    14You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

  • Deut 28:48-49
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    48You will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and total destitution. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

    49The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand.

  • Deut 28:28-29
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    28The LORD will strike you with madness, blindness, and confusion of heart.

    29At midday, you will grope around like a blind person in the dark. You will not prosper in your ways; you will be continually oppressed and robbed, with no one to save you.

  • Deut 30:1
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    1When all these things come upon you—the blessing and the curse that I have set before you—and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,

  • Deut 28:45-46
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    45All these curses will come upon you, pursue you, and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that He commanded you.

    46These curses will become a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.

  • Jer 18:16
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    16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn. All who pass by it are appalled and shake their heads.

  • Lev 26:38
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    38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • Jer 5:19
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    19And when you ask, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' you are to tell them, 'As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.'

  • Deut 28:15-17
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    15But if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God and carefully follow all His commandments and statutes I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

    16Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.

    17Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

  • Ezek 27:36
    73%

    36The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a source of terror and will cease to exist forever.

  • Deut 28:10
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    10Then all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the LORD is called upon you, and they will stand in awe of you.

  • Deut 28:51
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    51They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, or fresh oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have wiped you out.

  • Deut 8:20
    72%

    20Like the nations that the Lord is destroying before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

  • Jer 2:37
    72%

    37You will also leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper through them.

  • Jer 29:18
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    18I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse and an object of astonishment, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations where I have banished them.

  • Jer 42:18
    72%

    18This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As my anger and wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so too will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing, horror, condemnation, and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.

  • Ezek 28:7
    72%

    7therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.

  • Isa 22:17
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    17Behold, the LORD is about to hurl you away violently, O strong man! He will wrap you up tightly.

  • Lev 26:33
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    33I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins.

  • Jer 23:40
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    40I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame that will never be forgotten.

  • Jer 24:9
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    9I will make them a horror and an object of calamity among all the kingdoms of the earth—a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I drive them.

  • Hab 2:7
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    7Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will not those who make you tremble wake up? Then you will become their plunder.

  • Mic 6:16
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    16You have followed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of the house of Ahab; you have walked in their counsels. Therefore, I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of scorn; you will bear the reproach of My people.