37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.(A)

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Therefore, the wrath of the Lord was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery,[a](A) as you see with your own eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. 29:8 Lit hissing

Don’t be like your ancestors and your brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord, the God of their ancestors(A) so that he made them an object of horror(B) as you yourselves see.

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30 “An appalling, horrible thing
has taken place in the land.(A)

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16 They have made their land a horror,(A)
a perpetual object of scorn;[a](B)
all who pass by it will be appalled(C)
and shake their heads.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:16 Lit hissing

I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and scoff because of all its wounds.(A)

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I am going to send for all the families of the north’(A)—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘and send for my servant(B) Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror(C) and scorn, and ruins forever.(D)

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18 Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an example for scorn and cursing—as it is today;

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18 I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations(A) where I have banished them.(B)

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18 “For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury were poured out on Jerusalem’s residents,(A) so will my fury pour out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an example for cursing, scorn,(B) execration, and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’

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22 The Lord can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed,(A) so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.

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17 “Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be appalled and scoff because of all her wounds.(A)

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13 Because of the Lord’s wrath,
she will not be inhabited;
she will become a desolation, every bit of her.
Everyone who passes through Babylon
will be appalled
and scoff because of all her wounds.(A)

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16 The statutes of Omri
and all the practices of Ahab’s house
have been observed;
you have followed their policies.(A)
Therefore, I will make you a desolate place(B)
and the city’s[a] residents an object of contempt;[b](C)
you will bear the scorn of my people.”[c](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:16 Lit and its
  2. 6:16 Lit residents a hissing
  3. 6:16 LXX reads of the peoples

15 This is the jubilant(A) city
that lives in security,
that says to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
scoffs[a] and shakes his fist.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:15 Or hisses

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