Jeremiah 24:9
24:9 I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses.
That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.
Jeremiah 25:18
25:18 I made Jerusalem
and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it.
I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object
of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses.
Such is already becoming the case!
Jeremiah 29:22
29:22 And all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use them as examples when they put a curse on anyone. They will say, “May the
Lord treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab whom the king of Babylon roasted to death in the fire!”
Jeremiah 42:18
42:18 For
the
Lord God of Israel who rules over all
says, ‘If you go to Egypt, I will pour out my wrath on you just as I poured out my anger and wrath on the citizens of Jerusalem.
You will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.
You will never see this place again.’
Jeremiah 44:8-12
44:8 That is what will result from your making me angry by what you are doing.
You are making me angry by sacrificing to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you live. You will be destroyed for doing that! You will become an example used in curses
and an object of ridicule among all the nations of the earth.
44:9 Have you forgotten all the wicked things that have been done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem by your ancestors, by the kings of Judah and their
wives, by you and your wives?
44:10 To this day your people
have shown no contrition! They have not revered me nor followed the laws and statutes I commanded
you and your ancestors.’
44:11 “Because of this, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘I am determined to bring disaster on you, even to the point of destroying all the Judeans here.
44:12 I will see to it that all the Judean remnant that was determined to go and live in the land of Egypt will be destroyed. Here in the land of Egypt they will fall in battle or perish from starvation. People of every class will die in war or from starvation. They will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.
Jeremiah 44:22
44:22 Finally the
Lord could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.
Jeremiah 44:2
44:2 “The
Lord God of Israel who rules over all
says, ‘You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem
and all the towns of Judah. Indeed, they now lie in ruins and are deserted.
Jeremiah 22:19
22:19 He will be left unburied just like a dead donkey.
His body will be dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.’”
Isaiah 43:28
43:28 So I defiled your holy princes,
and handed Jacob over to destruction,
and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse.”
Isaiah 65:15
65:15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones.
The sovereign Lord will kill you,
but he will give his servants another name.
Daniel 9:11
9:11 “All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you.
Malachi 4:6
4:6 He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me,
so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment.”