A Reproach

And she conceived, and bare A son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were A reproach unto us:

And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make A covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for A reproach upon all Israel.

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.

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for A prey in the land of captivity:

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up A reproach against his neighbour.

But I am A worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.

I was A reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and A fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

As with A sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

Thou makest us A reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and A derision to them that are round about us.

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to A perpetual reproach.

We are become A reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

All that pass by the way spoil him: he is A reproach to his neighbours.

I became also A reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

Righteousness exalteth A nation: but sin is A reproach to any people.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is A son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

They were all ashamed of A people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but A shame, and also A reproach.

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them A reproach; they have no delight in it.

For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made A reproach unto me, and A derision, daily.

And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and A perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

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.

And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be A curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and A reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven 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.

In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be A curse and A reproach among all the nations of the earth?

And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and A curse, and A reproach.

For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become A desolation, A reproach, A waste, and A curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

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.

So it shall be A reproach and A taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

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.

O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become A reproach to all that are about us.

After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but A prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.

• Wine

Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you A reproach among the heathen:

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee A desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was A burden.

Moreover he must have A good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.