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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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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12 And I will take away the remnant of Judah,(A) those who have set their face to go to the land of Egypt to stay there. All of them will meet their end in the land of Egypt. They will fall by the sword; they will meet their end by famine. From the least to the greatest,(B) they will die by the sword and by famine. Then they will become an example for cursing, scorn,(C) execration, and disgrace.(D)

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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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For her wound is incurable(A)
and has reached even Judah;(B)
it has approached my people’s city gate,(C)
as far as Jerusalem.

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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

19 There is no remedy for your injury;
your wound is severe.(A)
All who hear the news about you
will clap their hands because of you,(B)
for who has not experienced
your constant cruelty?

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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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