10 Bible Verses about Byword

For what man soever of the house of Israel Or of the sojourners who sojourn in Israel, Who shall estrange himself from following me And who shall bring up his manufactured gods, on his heart, And whose stumbling-block of iniquity, he shall set straight before his face, And then come in unto the prophet, to enquire by him of me. Yahweh will myself answer him on my own account; And will set my face against that man And will make of him a sign and a proverb, And will cut him off out of the midst of my people: So shall ye know that, I, am Yahweh.

But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.

But, now, their song, have I become, Yea I serve them for a byword;

Thus shalt thou become a horror, a byword, and a mockery, among all the peoples whither Yahweh thy God will drive thee.

If ye, turn back, ye or your sons, from following me, and keep not my commandments, my statutes, which I have set before you, - but depart and serve other gods, and bow yourselves down to them, then will I cut off Israel, from the face of the soil, which I have given unto them, and, the house which I have hallowed for my Name, will I suffer to be carried away from before me, - and Israel shall become a byword and a mockery, among all the peoples; and, this house which had been renowned, shall be desolate, every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and shall whistle, - and men shall say - For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land, and unto this house?read more.
And men will answer - Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and bowed themselves down to them, and served them, for this cause, hath Yahweh brought in upon them all this ruin.

But, if, ye yourselves, shall turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, - and shall go and serve other gods, and bow down to them, then will I root you out from off the soil, which I have given to you, and, this house, which I have hallowed for my Name, will I cast off from before my face, - and will appoint it for a by-word and a mockery, among all the peoples; and, this house which hath been renowned, all that pass by near it, shall be astonished, - and say, Wherefore hath Yahweh done, thus and thus, to this land, and to this house?read more.
And men shall say, Because they forsook Yahweh the God of their fathers, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and bowed down to them, and served them, for this cause, hath he brought upon them, all this calamity.

And like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness, Surely thus, saith Yahweh - so, will I deliver up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes and the remnant of Jerusalem that remain in this land, and them who are dwelling in the land of Egypt; yea I will deliver them up, as a terror of calamity, to all the kingdoms of the earth, - as a reproach and as a byword, as a mockery and as a contempt, in every place whither I will drive them; and I will send among them, sword famine and pestilence, - until they are consumed from off the soil which I gave to them and to their fathers.

And the word of Yahweh came unto me saying, Son of man, Two women, daughters of one mother, there were; And they became unchaste in Egypt, In their youth, became they unchaste, There, were handled their breasts, And there, were pressed their virgin bosoms.read more.
And their names were Oholah the elder And Oholibah - her sister, And they became mine and hare sons and daughters,- And as for their names, Samaria was Oholah, And Jerusalem, was Oholibah. Then became Oholah unchaste after she had become mine- And lusted after her lovers, For Assyrians, so warlike, Clothed in blue Governors and deputies, Attractive young men all of them,-Horsemen riding on horses. So sire bestowed her unchastities upon them, The choicest men of Assyria all of them,- And with whomsoever she lusted after-with all their manufactured gods:, she defiled herself. And her unchaste doings from the time she was in Egypt:, trod she not forsaken, For with her, had they lain in her youth, Yea They had pressed her virgin bosoms,- and had poured out their unchastity upon her. therefore, did I deliver her into the hand of her lovers,- into the hand of the sons of Assyria, after whom she lusted: They disclosed her shame, Her sons and her daughters:, took they away, And herself - with the sword, they slew, - Thus became she a by-word among women, when judgments, they had executed upon her.

Between the porch and the altar, let the priests, weep, the attendants of Yahweh, - and let them say - Look with pity, O Yahweh, upon thy people, and do not deliver thine inheritance to reproach, that the nations, should mock them, Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts; Thou sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will: Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.read more.
Thou dost sell thy people for, no-value, And hast not made increase by their price. Thou dust make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us: Thou dust make us, A by-word among the nations, - A shaking of the head among the peoples. All the day, is my confusion before me, And, the shame of my face, hath covered me: At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and avenger. All this, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant; Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path; That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow. If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner, Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart? Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter. Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether! Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression? For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth. Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.