10 Bible Verses about Byword

For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, that separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prop And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb. And I will cut him off from the midst of my people. And ye shall know that I am LORD.

But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.

And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.

And thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where LORD shall lead thee away.

But if ye shall turn away from following me, ye or your sons, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them, then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And though this house is so high, yet shall every man who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss. And they shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?read more.
and they shall answer, Because they forsook LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore has LORD brought all this evil upon

But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them, then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them. And this house, which I have hallowed for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And this house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?read more.
And they shall answer, Because they forsook LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore he has brought all this evil

And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten they are so bad, surely thus says LORD: So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them. And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

The word of LORD came again to me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. And they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth. There their breasts were pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.read more.
And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. And they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine, and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors, who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them. And on whomever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself. Neither has she left her whoredoms since Egypt. For in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity, and they poured out their whoredom upon her. Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. And she became a byword among women, for they executed judgments upon her.

Let the priests, the ministers of LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and do not give thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among t

But now thou have cast off, and brought us to dishonor, and go not forth with our armies. Thou make us to turn back from the adversary. And those who hate us take spoil for themselves. Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.read more.
Thou sell thy people for nothing, and have not increased by their price. Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us. Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. All the day long my dishonor is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, for the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, because of the enemy and the avenger. All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee, nor have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps declined from thy way, that thou have greatly broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god, will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart. Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever. Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression? For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body clings to the ground. Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving kindness' sake.