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Hebrew millah (Job 30:9), a word or speech, and hence object of talk; Hebrew mashal (Ps 44:14), a proverb or parable. When it denotes a sharp word of derision, as in De 28:37; 1Ki 9:7; 2Ch 7:20, the Hebrew sheninah is used. In Jer 24:9 it is rendered "taunt."
And you will become a horror and a proverb and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahweh drives you there.
"But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.
You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of [the] head among [the] peoples.
And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them.