Deuteronomy 28:37

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You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the LORD will drive you.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations. 8 This temple will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, saying,‘Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?’
  • Jer 24:9 : 9 I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 So I, the LORD, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.
  • 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 then I will remove you from my land I have given you, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and I will make you an object of mockery and ridicule among all the nations.
  • Ps 44:13-14 : 13 You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. 14 You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.
  • Deut 28:28 : 28 The LORD will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.
  • Deut 29:22-28 : 22 The generation to come– your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places– will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the LORD has brought on it. 23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger. 24 Then all the nations will ask,“Why has the LORD done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?” 25 Then people will say,“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. 26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. 27 That is why the LORD’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll. 28 So the LORD has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, those who serve the LORD, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say,“Have pity, O LORD, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples,“Where is their God?”
  • Zech 8:13 : 13 And it will come about that just as you(both Judah and Israel) were a curse to the nations, so I will save you and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid! Instead, be strong!’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 28:31-36
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    82%

    31Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.

    32Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

    33As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

    34You will go insane from seeing all this.

    35The LORD will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils– from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

    36The LORD will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

  • Deut 4:27
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    27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

  • Deut 28:62-65
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    62There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the LORD your God.

    63This is what will happen: Just as the LORD delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

    64The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

    65Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.

  • Deut 28:38
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    38The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

  • Deut 28:24-25
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    78%

    24The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

    25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Ezek 28:19
    76%

    19All who know you among the peoples are shocked at you; you have become terrified and will be no more.’”

  • Deut 28:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

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

    20Curses by Disease and Drought“The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

  • Ezek 5:14-15
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    14“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

    15You will be an object of scorn and taunting, a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken!

  • Deut 28:41-43
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    41You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

    42Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

    43The resident foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

  • Ps 44:14
    75%

    14You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.

  • Deut 28:48-49
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    48instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

    49The LORD will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,

  • Deut 28:28-29
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    28The LORD will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.

    29You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.

  • Deut 30:1
    74%

    1The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation“When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the LORD your God has banished you.

  • Deut 28:45-46
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    45All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given you.

    46These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.

  • Jer 18:16
    74%

    16So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.

  • Lev 26:38
    74%

    38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • Jer 5:19
    73%

    19“So then, Jeremiah, when your people ask,‘Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?’ tell them,‘It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So you must serve foreigners in a land that does not belong to you.’

  • Deut 28:15-17
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    73%

    15Curses as Reversal of Blessings“But if you ignore the LORD your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

    16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

    17Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

  • Ezek 27:36
    73%

    36The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.’”

  • Deut 28:10
    73%

    10Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the LORD, and they will respect you.

  • Deut 28:51
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    51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

  • Deut 8:20
    72%

    20Just like the nations the LORD is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him.

  • Jer 2:37
    72%

    37Moreover, you will come away from Egypt with your hands covering your faces in sorrow and shame because the LORD will not allow your reliance on them to be successful and you will not gain any help from them.

  • Jer 29:18
    72%

    18I will chase after them with war, starvation, and disease. I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to them. I will make them examples of those who are cursed, objects of horror, hissing scorn, and ridicule among all the nations where I exile them.

  • Jer 42:18
    72%

    18For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘If you go to Egypt, I will pour out my wrath on you just as I poured out my anger and wrath on the citizens of Jerusalem. You will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse. You will never see this place again.’

  • Ezek 28:7
    72%

    7I am about to bring foreigners against you, the most terrifying of nations. They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.

  • Isa 22:17
    72%

    17Look, the LORD will throw you far away, you mere man! He will wrap you up tightly.

  • Lev 26:33
    72%

    33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

  • Jer 23:40
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    40I will bring on you lasting shame and lasting disgrace which will never be forgotten!’”

  • Jer 24:9
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    9I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.

  • Hab 2:7
    72%

    7Your creditors will suddenly attack; those who terrify you will spring into action, and they will rob you.

  • Mic 6:16
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    16You follow Omri’s edicts, and all the practices of Ahab’s dynasty; you follow their policies. Therefore I will make you an appalling sight, the city’s inhabitants will be taunted derisively, and nations will mock all of you.”