"Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by."
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And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.
And I will make thee a waste and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.
And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that `are' round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.