Deuteronomy 28:25
Curses by Defeat and Deportation
28:25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror 1 to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:37
28:37 You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the
Lord will drive you.
Deuteronomy 28:64
28:64 The
Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.
1 tc The meaningless MT reading זַעֲוָה (za’avah) is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun זְוָעָה (zÿva’ah, “terror”).