Deuteronomy 28:37
You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the Lord shall lead you away.
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Deuteronomy 29:22The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick;
2 Chronicles 7:20then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Jeremiah 24:9I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
Lamentations 3:45You have made us rubbish and refuse in the midst of the peoples.PEY
Joel 2:17Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar,and let them say, "Spare your people, Lord,and do not give your heritage to reproach,that the nations should rule over them.Why should they say among the peoples,'Where is their God?'"
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:16-45
Threatenings. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19… Read the whole commentary →