Deuteronomy 28:37

Blessings And Curses

³⁶ The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone. ³⁷ You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you. ³⁸ “You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it.

Byword Among All Nations

Lord Shall

Jehovah

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.

1 Kings 9:7-8

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Deuteronomy 28:28

The Lord will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart;

Deuteronomy 29:22-28

“Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it, will say,

Psalm 44:13-14

You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

Joel 2:17

Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers,
Weep between the porch and the altar,
And let them say, “Spare Your people, O Lord,
And do not make Your inheritance a reproach,
A byword among the nations.
Why should they among the peoples say,
‘Where is their God?’”

Zechariah 8:13

It will come about that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you that you may become a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.’