28 Therefore (A)I will profane the princes of the sanctuary,
    and (B)deliver Jacob to utter destruction
    and Israel to reviling.

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

13 And as (A)you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, (B)so will I save you, and (C)you shall be a blessing. (D)Fear not, but (E)let your hands be strong.”

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15 You shall leave your name to (A)my chosen (B)for a curse,
    and the Lord God will put you to death,
    but his servants (C)he will call by another name,

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16 (A)by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always (B)to fill up the measure of their sins. But (C)wrath has come upon them at last![a]

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or completely, or forever

The Lord (A)has swallowed up (B)without mercy
    all the habitations of Jacob;
in his wrath (C)he has broken down
    the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
he has brought (D)down to the ground (E)in dishonor
    the kingdom (F)and its rulers.

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(A)I was angry with my people;
    I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
    (B)you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

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We have become (A)a taunt to our neighbors,
    (B)mocked and derided by those around us.

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Curses for Disobedience

15 “But (A)if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and (B)overtake you. 16 Cursed shall you be (C)in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

20 “The Lord (D)will send on you curses, confusion, and (E)frustration in all that you undertake to do, (F)until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.

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21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, 22 for these are (A)days of (B)vengeance, to fulfill (C)all that is written. 23 (D)Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and (E)wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and (F)be led captive among all nations, and (G)Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, (H)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

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14 (A)Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, (B)for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and (C)we have not obeyed his voice.

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15 You shall be[a] a reproach and a taunt, a warning (A)and a horror, to (B)the nations all around you, (C)when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and (D)with furious rebukes—I am the Lord; I have spoken—

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  1. Ezekiel 5:15 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; Masoretic Text And it shall be

20 (A)The breath of our nostrils, (B)the Lord's anointed,
    was captured (C)in their pits,
of whom we said, (D)“Under his shadow
    we shall live among the nations.”

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He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
    laid in ruins (A)his meeting place;
(B)the Lord has made Zion forget
    festival and (C)Sabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

(D)The Lord has scorned his altar,
    (E)disowned his sanctuary;
(F)he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
    the walls of her palaces;
(G)they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of festival.

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24 Who gave up Jacob to the looter,
    and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
    in whose ways they would not walk,
    and whose law they would not obey?
25 So he poured on him the heat of his anger
    and the might of battle;
it set him on fire all around, (A)but he did not understand;
    it burned him up, (B)but he did not take it to heart.

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39 You have (A)renounced (B)the covenant with your servant;
    you have (C)defiled his (D)crown in the dust.

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(A)I said, “You are gods,
    sons of the Most High, all of you;
nevertheless, like men (B)you shall die,
    and fall like any prince.”[a]

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  1. Psalm 82:7 Or fall as one man, O princes

21 (A)“You mountains of Gilboa,
    let there be no dew or rain upon you,
    nor fields of offerings![a]
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
    the shield of Saul, not (B)anointed with oil.

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  1. 2 Samuel 1:21 Septuagint firstfruits

21 And the Lord will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law. 22 And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, (A)will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick— 23 the whole land burned out with brimstone and (B)salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, (C)an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, (D)Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath— 24 all the nations (E)will say, (F)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’ 25 Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them. 27 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, (G)bringing upon it all the curses written in this book, 28 and the Lord (H)uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and (I)cast them into another land, as they are this day.’

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