Psalm 89:41

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Psalm 89:41

All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

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You make us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us rob us at will.

Wild boars from the forest graze on it. Wild animals devour it.

I send him against a godless nation. I commission him against the people of my fury to capture booty and to seize plunder, and to trample them down like mud (clay) in the streets.

The people of Israel are like scattered sheep that lions have chased. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria. The last to gnaw at their bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

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How long, God, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

You will become a thing of revulsion. All the nations where Jehovah will send you will make an example of you and laugh at you.

I said: What you are doing is not good. Is it not necessary for you to walk out of respect for our God, because of the shame the nations put on us?

I will make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth. They will be a disgrace and an example. They will become something ridiculed and cursed wherever I scatter them.

I will chase them with wars, famines, and plagues. I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms on the earth. They will become something cursed, ridiculed, and hissed at, and they will be a disgrace among all the nations where I scatter them.

Jehovah, the God of Israel, says: 'Just as my anger and fury were poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so my fury will be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will be a horrifying sight. People will make fun of you and use your name as a curse. You will never see this place again.'

Why do you make me angry by worshiping idols and by sacrificing to other gods here in Egypt, where you have come to live? Are you doing this just to destroy yourselves, so that every nation on earth will make fun of you and use your name as a curse?

Keep in mind, O Jehovah, what has come to us. Take note and see our shame.

I will turn you into a wasteland and an object of ridicule among the nations around you and in the presence of everyone who passes by you.

O Jehovah, according to all your righteousness, let your anger, I pray you, be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. Because of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all those who are round about us.