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Psalms 48:2
rising splendidly, is the joy of the whole earth. Mount Zion— the summit of Zaphon— is the city of the great King.
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Jeremiah 18:16
They have made their land a horror, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by it will be appalled and shake their heads.
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Psalms 50:2
From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God appears in radiance.
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Ezekiel 25:6
“‘ For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced over the land of Israel with wholehearted contempt,
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Jeremiah 19:8
I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and scoff because of all its wounds.
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Isaiah 37:22
this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and scorns you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head behind your back.
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Zephaniah 2:15
This is the jubilant city that lives in security, that says to herself: I exist, and there is no one else. What a desolation she has become, a place for wild animals to lie down! Everyone who passes by her scoffs and shakes his fist.
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Psalms 22:7
Everyone who sees me mocks me; they sneer and shake their heads:
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Nahum 3:19
There is no remedy for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news about you will clap their hands because of you, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?
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Micah 6:16
The statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house have been observed; you have followed their policies. Therefore, I will make you a desolate place and the city’s residents an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of my people.”
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2 Kings 19 21
This is the word the LORD has spoken against him: Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and scorns you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head behind your back.
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1 Kings 9 7-1 Kings 9 9
I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.Though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff. They will say,“ Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?”Then they will say,“ Because they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt. They held on to other gods and bowed in worship to them and served them. Because of this, the LORD brought all this ruin on them.”
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Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying,“ We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for! We have lived to see it.”
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Lamentations 2:6
He has wrecked his temple as if it were merely a shack in a field, destroying his place of meeting. The LORD has abolished appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion. He has despised king and priest in his fierce anger.
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Deuteronomy 29:22-28
“ Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD demolished in his fierce anger.All the nations will ask,‘ Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this intense outburst of anger?’Then people will answer,‘ It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.They began to serve other gods, bowing in worship to gods they had not known— gods that the LORD had not permitted them to worship.Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, and he brought every curse written in this book on it.The LORD uprooted them from their land in his anger, rage, and intense wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’
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Jeremiah 25:9
I am going to send for all the families of the north’— this is the LORD’s declaration—‘ and send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror and scorn, and ruins forever.
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2 Chronicles 7 21
As for this temple, which was exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will say,“ Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?”
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Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den, a desolation and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.
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Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has sinned grievously; therefore, she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans and turns away.
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Psalms 44:14-15
You make us a joke among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.My disgrace is before me all day long, and shame has covered my face,
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Job 27:22-23
It blasts at him without mercy, while he flees desperately from its force.It claps its hands at him and scoffs at him from its place.
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Matthew 27:39
Those who passed by were yelling insults at him, shaking their heads
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Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned down, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
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Mark 15:29
Those who passed by were yelling insults at him, shaking their heads, and saying,“ Ha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
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Jeremiah 29:18
I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth— a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations where I have banished them.
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Jeremiah 25:18
Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah, its kings and its officials, to make them a desolate ruin, an example for scorn and cursing— as it is today;