2 Chronicles 7:20
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20 then I will uproot the people from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make it an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.
2 Kings 17:20
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20 The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel. He punished them by handing them over to their attackers until he had banished Israel from his presence.
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Deuteronomy 28:37
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37 You will become an object of horror, ridicule, and mockery among all the nations to which the Lord sends you.
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Jeremiah 45:4
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4 “Baruch, this is what the Lord says: ‘I will destroy this nation that I built. I will uproot what I planted.
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Jeremiah 24:9
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9 I will make them an object of horror and a symbol of evil to every nation on earth. They will be disgraced and mocked, taunted and cursed, wherever I scatter them.
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1 Kings 14:15
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15 Then the Lord will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River,[a] for they have angered the Lord with the Asherah poles they have set up for worship.
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- 14:15 Hebrew the river.
1 Kings 9:7
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7 then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.
Deuteronomy 29:28
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28 In great anger and fury the Lord uprooted his people from their land and banished them to another land, where they still live today!’
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Lamentations 2:15-16
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15 All who pass by jeer at you.
They scoff and insult beautiful Jerusalem,[a] saying,
“Is this the city called ‘Most Beautiful in All the World’
and ‘Joy of All the Earth’?”
16 All your enemies mock you.
They scoff and snarl and say,
“We have destroyed her at last!
We have long waited for this day,
and it is finally here!”
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- 2:15 Hebrew the daughter of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 31:28
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28 In the past I deliberately uprooted and tore down this nation. I overthrew it, destroyed it, and brought disaster upon it. But in the future I will just as deliberately plant it and build it up. I, the Lord, have spoken!
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Psalm 44:14
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14 You have made us the butt of their jokes;
they shake their heads at us in scorn.
Jude 12
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12 When these people eat with you in your fellowship meals commemorating the Lord’s love, they are like dangerous reefs that can shipwreck you.[a] They are like shameless shepherds who care only for themselves. They are like clouds blowing over the land without giving any rain. They are like trees in autumn that are doubly dead, for they bear no fruit and have been pulled up by the roots.
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- 12 Or they are contaminants among you; or they are stains.
Jeremiah 18:7
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7 If I announce that a certain nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed,
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