


God has made a mockery of me among the people they spit in my face. And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither the LORD shall lead thee away. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. RSV Sir 13:26 The mark of a happy heart is a cheerful face, but to devise proverbsrequires painful thinking. 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of The LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake theeĪnd thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither The LORD shall lead thee.Īnd The LORD Shall Scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.Īnd among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but The LORD Shall Give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: Astonishment-Bafflement, bewilderment, confusion God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit. with homosexual conduct that its name was for many years a byword for it. 3: The LORD said to him: I have heard the prayer and plea you have made. Tob 3:4 For they disobeyed thy commandments, and thou gavest us over to plunder, captivity, and death thou madest us a bywordof reproach in all the nations among which we have been dispersed.
