Nahum 3:6
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6 I will throw filth at you
and treat you with contempt
and make you a spectacle.(A)
Malachi 2:9
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9 so I make you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.(A)
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Jeremiah 51:37
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37 and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins,
a den of jackals,
an object of horror and of hissing,
without inhabitant.(A)
Job 9:31
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31 yet you will plunge me into filth,
and my own clothes will abhor me.
Hebrews 10:33
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33 sometimes being publicly exposed to insults and afflictions and sometimes becoming partners with those so treated.(A)
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1 Corinthians 4:9
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9 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to humans.(A)
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Nahum 1:14
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14 The Lord has commanded concerning you:
Your name shall be perpetuated no longer;
from the house of your gods I will cut off
the carved image and the cast image.
I will prepare your grave, for you are worthless.(A)
Psalm 38:5-7
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5 My wounds grow foul and fester
because of my foolishness;(A)
6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all day long I go around mourning.(B)
7 For my loins are filled with burning,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.(C)
Job 30:8
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8 A senseless, disreputable brood,
they have been whipped out of the land.
Jude 7
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7 Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust,[a] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.(A)
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- 7 Gk went after other flesh
1 Corinthians 4:13
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13 when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day.
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Malachi 2:2
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2 If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them[a] because you do not lay it to heart.(A)
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- 2.2 Heb it
Zephaniah 2:15
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15 Is this the exultant city
that lived secure,
that said to itself,
“I am, and there is no one else”?
What a desolation it has become,
a lair for wild animals!
Everyone who passes by it
hisses and shakes the fist.(A)
Lamentations 3:16
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16 He has made my teeth grind on gravel;
he has made me cower in ashes;
Isaiah 14:16-19
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16 Those who see you will stare at you
and ponder over you:
“Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,(A)
17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
who would not let his prisoners go home?”(B)
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
each in his own tomb,
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
like loathsome carrion,[a]
clothed with the dead, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the Pit
like a corpse trampled underfoot.(C)
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- 14.19 Cn Compare Gk: Heb like a loathed branch
Job 30:19
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19 He has cast me into the mire,
and I have become like dust and ashes.(A)
1 Kings 9:7-8
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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) 8 This house will become a heap of ruins;[a] everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this house?’(B)
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- 9.8 Syr OL: Heb will become high
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