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Lamentations 3:14
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

Lamentations 2:15
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?"

Lamentations 4:14, 15
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:13, 37, 44
The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:13
when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.