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Eze 22:4 |
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come [even] unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. |
  
  
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Lev 26:31 |
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. |
  
  
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Lev 26:32 |
And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. |
  
  
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Deu 28:37 |
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. |
  
  
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2Ch 7:20 |
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations. |
  
  
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2Ch 7:21 |
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house? |
  
  
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Neh 2:17 |
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we [are] in, how Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. |
  
  
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Psa 74:3 |
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. |
  
  
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Psa 74:4 |
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns [for] signs. |
  
  
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Psa 74:5 |
[A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. |
  
  
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Psa 74:6 |
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. |
  
  
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Psa 74:7 |
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. |
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Psa 79:1 |
[[A Psalm of Asaph.]] O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. |
  
  
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Psa 79:2 |
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. |
  
  
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Psa 79:3 |
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to bury [them]. |
  
  
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Psa 79:4 |
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. |
  
  
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Isa 64:10 |
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. |
  
  
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Isa 64:11 |
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. |
  
  
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Jer 19:8 |
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. |
  
  
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Jer 24:9 |
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for [their] hurt, [to be] a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. |
  
  
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Jer 24:10 |
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers. |
  
  
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Jer 42:18 |
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more. |
  
  
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Lam 1:4 |
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness. |
  
  
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Lam 1:8 |
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. |
  
  
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Lam 2:15 |
All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? |
  
  
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Lam 2:16 |
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen [it]. |
  
  
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Lam 2:17 |
The LORD hath done [that] which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused [thine] enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. |
  
  
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Lam 5:18 |
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. |
  
  
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Mic 3:12 |
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. |