Lev 26:31-32, Deu 28:37, 2Ch 7:20-21, Neh 2:17, Psa 74:3-10, Eze 22:4 | ESV | STEP | And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate , and I will not smell your pleasing aromas .

ab[See ver. 2 above]

ac[See ver. 3 above]

Leviticus 26:31-32

31 And I will ^alay your cities waste and will ^bmake your sanctuaries desolate, and ^cI will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And ^dI myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be ^eappalled at it.

Deuteronomy 28:37

37 And you shall become ^fa horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away.

2 Chronicles 7:20-21

20 ^gthen I will pluck you ^{▼▼Hebrew them; twice in this verse} up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it ⁱa proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21 And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ^j‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

Nehemiah 2:17

17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, ^khow Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer ^lsuffer derision.”

Psalms 74:3-10

3 Direct your steps to ^mthe perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
4 Your foes have ⁿroared in the midst of your meeting place;
^othey set up their ^pown signs for ^qsigns.
5 They were like those who swing ^raxes
in a forest of trees. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain}
6 And all its ^tcarved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7 They ^uset your sanctuary on fire;
they ^vprofaned ^wthe dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
8 They ^xsaid to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 We do not see our ^ysigns;
^zthere is no longer any prophet,
and there is none among us who knows how long.
10 How long, O God, ^aais the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

Ezekiel 22:4

4 You have become guilty ^abby the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought ^acyour days near, the appointed time of ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts until} your years has come. ^aeTherefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.