1 Kings 9:8

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⁸This temple will become a heap of rubble. All^[a] who pass by will be appalled^(A) and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’^(B)

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1 Kings 9:8 See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew And though this temple is now imposing, all

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Jeremiah 18:16

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¹⁶Their land will be an object of horror^(A)
and of lasting scorn;^(B)
all who pass by will be appalled^(C)
and will shake their heads.^(D)

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Jeremiah 19:8

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⁸I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn;^(A) all who pass by will be appalled^(B) and will scoff because of all its wounds.^(C)

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Jeremiah 25:9

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⁹I will summon^(A) all the peoples of the north^(B) and my servant^(C) Nebuchadnezzar^(D) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy^[a]^(E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,^(F) and an everlasting ruin.^(G)

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Jeremiah 25:9 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.

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Jeremiah 25:18

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¹⁸Jerusalem^(A) and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin^(B) and an object of horror and scorn,^(C) a curse^[a]^(D)—as they are today;^(E)

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Jeremiah 25:18 That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed

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Jeremiah 29:18

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¹⁸I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make them abhorrent^(A) to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse^[a]^(B) and an object of horror,^(C) of scorn^(D) and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them.