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Psalm 79:4

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 4 We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors;+
  Those around us ridicule and jeer us.

Jeremiah 24:9

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 9 I will make them an object of horror and calamity to all the kingdoms of the earth,+ a reproach, a proverbial saying, a cause for ridicule, and a curse+ in all the places to which I disperse them.+

Lamentations 2:15

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 15 At you all those passing by on the road scornfully clap their hands.+
  
  They whistle in amazement+ and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying:
  
  “Is this the city about which they said, ‘It is perfect in beauty, the joy of all the earth’?”+

Lamentations 3:61, 62

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 61 You have heard their taunts, O Jehovah, all their schemes against me,+
  62 The lips of my opposers and their whispering against me all day long.