Ezekiel 36:3
"Therefore this is what you are to prophesy: "Here's what the Lord GOD says, "You've been turned into a desolate wasteland and crushed by everyone who surrounds you for a very, very good reason. You've become the property of all the other nations and you've become the object of gossip and whispering campaigns of the nations."'"
Psalm 44:13-14
You made us a laughing stock to our neighbors, a source of mockery and derision to those around us.
Jeremiah 18:16
They make their land into a desolate place, an object of lasting scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.
Lamentations 2:15-16
Everyone who passes by on the road shake their fists at you. They hiss and shake their heads at cherished Jerusalem: "Is this the city men used to call "The Perfection of Beauty,' and "The Joy of the Entire Earth'"?
Leviticus 26:43
They will leave the land so it can rest while it lies desolate without them. That's when they'll receive the punishment of their iniquity, because indeed they will have rejected my ordinances and despised my statutes.
Deuteronomy 28:37
You'll become a desolation and a proverb, and you'll be mocked among the people where the LORD will drive you."
1 Kings 9:7-8
then I will eliminate Israel from the land that I gave them and from the Temple that I've consecrated for my name. I will throw them out of my sight, and Israel will become the butt of jokes and a means of ridicule among people worldwide!
Job 30:1-10
"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.
Psalm 35:15-16
But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me attackers whom I did not know. They tore me apart and would not stop.
Psalm 35:25
Don't let them say in their hearts, "Yes! We got what we wanted." Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up."
Psalm 61:1
God, hear my cry; pay attention to my prayer.
Psalm 69:12
The prominent people mock me, composing drinking songs.
Psalm 79:10
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let vengeance for the blood of your servants be meted out before our eyes and among the nations.
Proverbs 1:12
Let's swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those who go down into the Pit.
Jeremiah 24:9
I'll make them into a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth; into a cause for contempt, into a byword, into a taunt, and into a curse in all the places to which I drive them.
Jeremiah 33:24
"Haven't you noticed what these people have been saying? "The LORD rejected the two families that he had chosen!' They have contempt for my people and no longer consider them a nation.
Jeremiah 39:1-18
This is how Jerusalem was captured: In the tenth month of the ninth year of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it.
Jeremiah 41:1-18
In the seventh month, Nethaniah's son Ishmael, the grandson of Elishama, a member of the royal family and one of the chief officers of the king, came to Ahikam's son Gedaliah at Mizpah, along with ten men. While they were dining together there at Mizpah,
Jeremiah 51:34
"King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me. He set me down like an empty vessel. He swallowed me like a monster, and filled his belly with my delicacies. Then he washed me away.
Jeremiah 52:1-5
Zedekiah was 21 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 11 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord swallowed up without pity all of Jacob's habitations. In his wrath he tore down the strongholds of fair Judah. He cast to the ground in dishonor both her kingdom and its rulers.
Lamentations 2:5
The Lord has become like an enemy he has devoured Israel. He has devoured all of her palaces, destroying her fortresses. He filled cherished Judah with mourning and lament.
Ezekiel 13:10
because they've truly caused my people to stray saying, "Peace," but there's no peace.'"
Daniel 9:16
Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, please turn your anger and wrath away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. Because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become an embarrassment to all of those around us.
Matthew 27:39-44
Those who passed by kept insulting him, shaking their heads,
1 Corinthians 4:13
When slandered, we answer with kind words. Even now we have become the filth of the world, the scum of the universe.