2 Chronicles 7:20
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20 then I will pluck you[a] up from the land that I have given you,[b] and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.(A)
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2 Kings 17:20
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20 The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel; he punished them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had banished them from his presence.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:37
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37 You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you.(A)
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Jeremiah 45:4
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4 Thus you shall say to him, “Thus says the Lord: I am going to break down what I have built and pluck up what I have planted—that is, the whole land.(A)
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Jeremiah 24:9
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9 I will make them a horror, an evil thing, to all the kingdoms of the earth—a disgrace, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.(A)
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1 Kings 14:15
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15 “The Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water; he will root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their sacred poles,[a] provoking the Lord to anger.(A)
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- 14.15 Or Asherahs
1 Kings 9:7
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7 then I will cut Israel off from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.(A)
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Deuteronomy 29:28
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28 The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’(A)
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Lamentations 2:15-16
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15 All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
they hiss and wag their heads
at daughter Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of all the earth?”(A)
16 All your enemies
open their mouths against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
they cry: “We have devoured her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
at last we have seen it!”(B)
Jeremiah 31:28
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28 And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.(A)
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Psalm 44:14
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- 44.14 Heb a shaking of the head
Jude 12
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12 These are blots[a] on your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves.[b] They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;(A)
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Jeremiah 18:7
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7 At one moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,
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