Ulangan 28:37

28:37 You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.

Yesaya 28:22

28:22 So now, do not mock,

or your chains will become heavier!

For I have heard a message about decreed destruction,

from the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, against the entire land. ¹ 

Yeremia 19:8

19:8 I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn ²  because of all the disasters that have happened to it. ³ 

Nahum 3:19

3:19 Your destruction is like an incurable wound; ⁴ 

your demise is like a fatal injury! ⁵ 

All who hear what has happened to you ⁶  will clap their hands for joy, ⁷ 

for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty! ⁸ 

[28:22]  ¹ tn Or “the whole earth” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NCV).

[19:8]  ² sn See 18:16 and the study note there.

[19:8]  ³ tn Heb “all its smitings.” This word has been used several times for the metaphorical “wounds” that Israel has suffered as a result of the blows from its enemies. See, e.g., 14:17. It is used in the Hebrew Bible of scourging, both literally and metaphorically (cf. Deut 25:3; Isa 10:26), and of slaughter and defeat (1 Sam 4:10; Josh 10:20). Here it refers to the results of the crushing blows at the hands of her enemies which has made her the object of scorn.

[3:19]  ⁴ tc The MT reads the hapax legomenon כֵּהָה (kehah, “relief, alleviation”). On the other hand, the LXX reads ἴασις (iasi", “healing”) which seems to reflect a reading of גֵּהָה (gehah, “cure, healing”). In the light of the LXX, the BHS editors suggest emending the MT to גֵּהָה (gehah) – which occurs only once elsewhere (Prov 17:22) – on the basis of orthographic and phonological confusion between Hebrew כ (kaf) and ג (gimel). This emendation would produce the common ancient Near Eastern treaty-curse: “there is no cure for your wound” (e.g., Hos 5:13); see HALOT 461 s.v. כֵּהָה; K. J. Cathcart, “Treaty-Curses and the Book of Nahum,” CBQ 35 (1973): 186; D. Hillers, Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophets, 64-66.

[3:19]  tn Heb “There is no relief of your fracture.”

[3:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “your injury is fatal.”

[3:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “the report of you.”

[3:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “will clap their hands over you.”

[3:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “For who ever escaped…?”