Pro 14:34, Isa 3:9-11, Jer 2:17, 19, 4:18, Lam 1:8, 18, 2:1, 4:13 | ESV | STEP | Righteousness exalts a nation , but sin is a reproach to any people .

Proverbs 14:34

34 Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people.

Isaiah 3:9-11

9 For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin ^alike Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
^bFor they have brought evil on themselves.
10 ^cTell the righteous that it shall be well with them,
^dfor they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
11 ^eWoe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

Jeremiah 2:17

17 ^fHave you not brought this upon yourself
by forsaking the Lord your God,
when ^ghe led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

19 ^hYour evil will chastise you,
and ⁱyour apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and ^jbitter
for ^kyou to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,

declares the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

18 Your ways and your deeds
have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and ^lit is bitter;
it has reached your very heart.”

Lamentations 1:8

8 ^mJerusalem sinned grievously;
therefore she became filthy;
all who honored her despise her,
ⁿfor they have seen her nakedness;
she herself ^ogroans
and turns her face away.

Lamentations 1:18

18 ^p“The Lord is in the right,
^qfor I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
and see my suffering;
^rmy young women and my young men
have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:1

The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity

1 How the Lord in his anger
has set the daughter of Zion ^sunder a cloud!
^tHe has cast down from heaven to earth
the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered ^uhis footstool
in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 4:13

13 This was for ^vthe sins of her prophets
and ^wthe iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.