He has made me an object of scorn to the people;
I have become a man people spit at.[a](A)

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  1. 17:6 Lit become a spitting to the faces

“God has made me a byword(A) to everyone,(B)
    a man in whose face people spit.(C)

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25 I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers;[a]
when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.(A)

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  1. 109:25 Lit to them

25 I am an object of scorn(A) to my accusers;
    when they see me, they shake their heads.(B)

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I will make them an object of horror(A) and a disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, an example for disgrace, scorn, ridicule,(B) and cursing, wherever I have banished them.(C)

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