20 (A)then I will pluck you[a] up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it (B)a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 7:20 Hebrew them; twice in this verse

20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them (A)and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

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37 And you shall become (A)a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.

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Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord: (A)Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land.

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I will make them (A)a horror[a] to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be (B)a reproach, (C)a byword, (D)a taunt, and (E)a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 24:9 Compare Septuagint; Hebrew horror for evil

15 the Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and (A)root up Israel out of (B)this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them (C)beyond the Euphrates,[a] because they have made their (D)Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.

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  1. 1 Kings 14:15 Hebrew the River

(A)then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, (B)and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, (C)and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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28 and the Lord (A)uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and (B)cast them into another land, as they are this day.’

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15 All who pass along the way
    clap their hands at you;
(A)they hiss and wag their heads
    at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
    (B)the perfection of beauty,
    (C)the joy of all the earth?”

16 (D)All your enemies
    rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
    they cry: “We (E)have swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
    now we have it; (F)we see it!”

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28 And it shall come to pass that (A)as I have watched over them (B)to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, (C)so I will watch over them (D)to build and to plant, declares the Lord.

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14 You have made us (A)a byword among the nations,
    (B)a laughingstock[a] among the peoples.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 44:14 Hebrew a shaking of the head

12 These are hidden reefs[a] (A)at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, (B)shepherds feeding themselves; (C)waterless clouds, (D)swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, (E)uprooted;

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:12 Or are blemishes

If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will (A)pluck up and break down and destroy it,

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17 (A)But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the Lord.”

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But God will break you down forever;
    he will snatch and (A)tear you from your tent;
    he will uproot you from (B)the land of the living. Selah

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Opposition to the Work

[a] Now when (A)Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of (B)Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves?[b] Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?” (C)Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—(D)if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” (E)Hear, O our God, for we are despised. (F)Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 4:1 Ch 3:33 in Hebrew
  2. Nehemiah 4:2 Or Will they commit themselves to God?

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