in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.
They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, the LORD, and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"
the LORD answered his people, "Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you." Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
You have heard their reproach, the LORD, and all their devices against me,
Remember, the LORD, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
"Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men."
"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."
They said to me, "The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire."
"Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;
Also I said, "The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish.
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.
So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.
For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don't reproach her.
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of Armies.
I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.
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