Lamentations 2:15
New King James Version
15 All who [a]pass by (A)clap their hands at you;
They hiss (B)and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that is called
(C)‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth’?”
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:15 Lit. pass by this way
Luke 14:27-29
New King James Version
27 And (A)whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. 28 For (B)which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it— 29 lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
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Ezekiel 22:4
New King James Version
4 You have become guilty by the blood which you have (A)shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; (B)therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries.
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