Ezekiel 5:14
Moreover I will make you a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.
Nehemiah 2:17
Then said I unto them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we are no more a reproach.
Psalm 74:3-10
Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Psalm 79:1-4
[A Psalm of Asaph.] O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ezekiel 22:4
You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed; and have defiled yourself in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even unto your years: therefore have I made you a reproach unto the nations, and a mocking to all countries.
Leviticus 26:31-32
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the aroma of your sweet odors.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.
2 Chronicles 7:20-21
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.
Isaiah 64:10-11
Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 19:8
And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; everyone that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
Jeremiah 24:9-10
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
Jeremiah 42:18
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when you shall enter into Egypt: and you shall be an oath, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to 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.
Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sighs, and turns away.
Lamentations 2:15-17
All that pass by clap their hands at you; 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?
Lamentations 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Micah 3:12
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the forest.