1 Kings 9:8

“You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the people where Yahweh drives you.

“And all the nations will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? Why this great burning anger?’

And he burned the house of Yahweh, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.

Thus Solomon completed the house of Yahweh and the king’s house; and all that had come into Solomon’s heart to do in the house of Yahweh and in his house, he did successfully.

Then they burned the house of God and tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles.

“It shall come about when they say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ then you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’

“Now when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ‘For what reason has Yahweh declared all this great calamity against us? And what is our iniquity, or what is our sin which we have committed against Yahweh our God?’

To make their land an object of horror, An object of perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be horrified And shake his head.

“I will also make this city an object of horror and of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and hiss because of all its slaughtering.

“Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?’

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting waste place.

provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are entering to sojourn, so that you might be cut off and become an imprecation and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

“Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss at all its wounds.

And he burned the house of Yahweh, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

“Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!