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1 Corinthians 4 13
We appeal gently when evil things are said about us. Yet we are treated like the world’s garbage, like everybody’s trash— right up to the present moment.
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Deuteronomy 28:44
They will lend money to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail!
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Deuteronomy 28:37
You will become an object of horror, ridicule, and mockery among all the nations to which the Lord sends you.
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Lamentations 3:14
My own people laugh at me. All day long they sing their mocking songs.
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Lamentations 2:15
All who pass by jeer at you. They scoff and insult beautiful Jerusalem, saying,“ Is this the city called‘ Most Beautiful in All the World’ and‘ Joy of All the Earth’?”
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Lamentations 4:14-15
They wandered blindly through the streets, so defiled by blood that no one dared touch them.“ Get away!” the people shouted at them.“ You’re defiled! Don’t touch us!” So they fled to distant lands and wandered among foreign nations, but none would let them stay.
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Deuteronomy 28:13
If you listen to these commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today, and if you carefully obey them, the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always be on top and never at the bottom.