10 Bible Verses about Byword

For a man, a man of the house of Israel, and of the stranger who shall sojourn in Israel, and he shall separate himself from after me, and shall bring up his blocks into his heart, and shall set the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and coming to the prophet to seek out to him for me; I Jehovah will answer to him for me: And I gave my face against that man, and I set him for a sign and for parables, and I cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye knew that I am Jehovah.

He set me for a parable of the peoples, and I shall be one spit upon to the face.

And now I was their song, and I to them for a by word.

And thou wert for an astonishment, for a parable, for a sharp saying in all the peoples where Jehovah shall lead thee there.

If turning back, ye shall turn back, ye and your sons from after me, and shall not watch my commands, my laws which I gave before you, and ye went and served other gods and worshiped to them: And I cut off Israel from the face of the earth which I gave to them and the house which I consecrated to my name I will cast out from my face; and Israel was for a parable and for a derision among all peoples. And this house shall be high, every one passing by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss: and they said, For what did Jehovah thus to this land and to this house?read more.
And they said, Because they forsook Jehovah their God who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and they will lay hold upon other gods and worship to them, and serve them: for this, Jehovah brought, upon them all this evil.

And if ye shall turn away and forsake my laws and my covenant which I gave before you, and ye went and served other gods and worshiped to them; And I plucked them up from my land which I gave to them; and this house which I consecrated to my name I will cast from my face, and I will give it for a parable and for a derision among all peoples. And this house which was high shall astonish to every one passing by it; and saying, For what did Jehovah thus to this land and to this house?read more.
And they said, Because they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers who brought them forth from the land of Egypt; and they will lay hold upon other gods and worship to them, and serve them: for this he brought upon them all this evil

And as the evil figs which shall not be eaten from being evil; for thus said Jehovah, So will I give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his chiefs, and the remainder of Jerusalem, those remaining in this land, and those dwelling in the land of Egypt: And I gave them for maltreatment, and for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and for a parable, and for a derision, and for a curse in, all the places which I shall thrust them away there. And I sent among them the sword, the famine, and the death, even to the consuming them from off the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.

The word of Jehovah will come to me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother: And they will commit fornication in Egypt; in their youth they committal fornication: there were their breasts pressed, and the breasts of their virginity fell away.read more.
And their names Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister; and they will be to me, and they will bring forth sons and daughters, and their names Shomeron-Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah. And Aholah will commit fornication under me; and she will desire after those loving her, after Assur, they being near. Putting on cerulean purple, prefects and governors, young men of desire all of them, horsemen riding horses. And she will give her whoredoms upon them from the choice of the sons of Assur all of them, and with all whom she desired; being defiled with all their blocks. And her fornications from Egypt she forsook not: for they lay with her in her youth, and they handled the breasts of her virginity, and they will pour forth her fornications upon her. For this I delivered her into the hand of those loving her, into the hand of the sons of Assur whom she desired after them. They uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters and slew them with the sword: and she will be a name to women, and they did judgments upon her.

Between the porch and to the altar the priests serving Jehovah shall weep, and they shall say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and thou wilt not give thine inheritance to reproach for the nations to rule over them: wherefore shall they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

But thou didst reject, and thou wilt shame us, and not go forth with our armies. Thou wilt turn us back from the enemy: and those hating us spoiled for themselves. Thou wilt give us as sheep for food, and thou didst scatter us among the nations.read more.
Thou wilt sell thy people without riches, and thou didst not increase by their price. Thou wilt set us a reproach to our neighbors, and a derision and scorn to them round about us. Thou wilt set us a parable among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. All the day my shame before me, and the confusion of my face covered me, From the voice of him reproaching and reviling, from the face of the enemy and avenger. All this came to us, and we did not forget thee, and we lied not in thy covenant Our heart drew not back, and thou wilt not incline our going from thy path; For thou didst crush us in the place of jackals, and thou wilt cover over us with the shadow of death. If we forgat the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god: Will not God search this out? for he knew the secrets of the heart For, for thee we were killed all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of the slaughter. Awake, why wilt thou sleep, O Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject forever. Why wilt thou hide thy face? wilt thou forget our affliction and our oppression? For our soul was bowed down to the dust: our belly was glued to the earth. Arise a help for us, and redeem us for sake of thy mercy.