Jeremiah 29:18
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18 I will pursue them with (A)sword, famine, and pestilence, (B)and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, (C)to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations (D)where I have driven them,
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Jeremiah 42:18
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18 “For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. (B)You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.
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Jeremiah 15:4
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4 (A)And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what (B)Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 29:8
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8 Therefore (A)the wrath of the Lord came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them (B)an object of horror, of astonishment, (C)and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
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Jeremiah 24:9
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9 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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- Jeremiah 24:9 Compare Septuagint; Hebrew horror for evil
Deuteronomy 28:25
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25 (A)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you (B)shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Ezekiel 12:15
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15 (A)And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
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Lamentations 2:15-16
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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!”
Jeremiah 34:17
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17 “Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me (A)by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; (B)behold, I proclaim to you liberty (C)to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. (D)I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Jeremiah 25:9
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9 (A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
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Isaiah 65:15
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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,
Luke 21:24
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24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and (A)be led captive among all nations, and (B)Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, (C)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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1 Kings 9:7-8
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7 (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. 8 And this house will become a heap of ruins.[a] Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, (D)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’
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- 1 Kings 9:8 Syriac, Old Latin; Hebrew will become high
Amos 9:9
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9 “For behold, I will command,
(A)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Ezekiel 36:19
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19 (A)I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. (B)In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
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Ezekiel 22:15
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15 (A)I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and (B)I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
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Ezekiel 6:8
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8 (A)“Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations (B)some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
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Jeremiah 29:22
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22 (A)Because of them (B)this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, (C)whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”
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Jeremiah 26:6
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6 then I will make this house (A)like Shiloh, and I will make this city (B)a curse for all the nations of the earth.’”
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Jeremiah 19:8
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8 And I will make this city (A)a horror, (B)a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.
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Psalm 44:11
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2 Chronicles 7:19-22
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19 (A)“But if you[a] turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 (B)then I will pluck you[b] 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 (C)a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21 And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, (D)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ 22 Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.’”
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- 2 Chronicles 7:19 The Hebrew for you is plural here
- 2 Chronicles 7:20 Hebrew them; twice in this verse
Deuteronomy 29:21-28
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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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Deuteronomy 28:64
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64 “And the Lord (A)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and (B)there you shall serve other gods (C)of wood and stone, (D)which neither you nor your fathers have known.
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