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37 And you shall become an amazement, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to which the Lord will lead you.

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[Because of such humiliation] we have become a taunt and reproach to our neighbors, a mocking and derision to those who are round about us.

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We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
    of scorn(A) and derision to those around us.(B)

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I will even give them up to be a dismay and a horror and to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach, a byword or proverb, a taunt, and a curse in all places where I will drive them.

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I will make them abhorrent(A) and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword,(B) a curse[a](C) and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish(D) them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 24:9 That is, their names will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that they are cursed.