proverb.

Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace, an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing, wherever I have banished them.

Ezekiel 5:15
So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Habakkuk 2:6
Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles against him, saying: 'Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?'

how

Isaiah 14:6, 17
It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution. . . .

Isaiah 47:5
Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of Chaldea. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.

Isaiah 49:26
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

Isaiah 51:23
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: 'Lie down, so we can walk over you.' And you made your back like the ground, and like a street to be traversed.

Jeremiah 25:9-14
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation. . . .

Jeremiah 27:6, 7
So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him. . . .

Jeremiah 50:22, 23
The noise of battle is in the land--the noise of great destruction. . . .

Jeremiah 51:20-24, 34, 35
"You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin. . . .

Daniel 7:19-25
Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others--extremely terrifying--with iron teeth and bronze claws, devouring, crushing, and trampling underfoot whatever was left. . . .

Habakkuk 1:2-10
How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, "Violence!" but You do not save? . . .

Habakkuk 2:6-12, 17
Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, with mockery and riddles against him, saying: 'Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?' . . .

Revelation 13:15-17
The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship it to be killed. . . .

Revelation 16:5, 6
And I heard the angel of the waters say: "Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and who was, because You have brought these judgments. . . .

Revelation 17:6
I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and of the witnesses for Jesus. And I was greatly astonished at the sight of her.

Revelation 18:5-8, 20
For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. . . .

golden city.

Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 45:2, 3
"I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:18
He carried off everything to Babylon--all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.

Lamentations 4:1
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.

Daniel 2:38
Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

Revelation 18:16
saying: "Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!