37 And you will become an object of horror and of scorn,* and a cause for ridicule among all the peoples to whom Jehovah drives you.+

22 “When the future generation of your sons and the foreigner from a distant land see the plagues of the land, the maladies that Jehovah has brought upon it— 23 sulfur and salt and burning, so that its whole land will not be sown or sprout, nor will any vegetation spring up in it, like the overthrow of Sodʹom and Go·morʹrah,+ Adʹmah and Ze·boiʹim,+ which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath— 24 they and all the nations will say, ‘Why did Jehovah do this to this land?+ What caused this great, burning anger?’

Every last one passing by it will stare in horror and shake his head.+

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’?”+

15 You will become an object of reproach and scorn,+ a warning example and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgment on you in anger and in wrath and with furious punishments. I, Jehovah, have spoken.