“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
…then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.
For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
…when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
…then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.