![]() 37 You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. Websters Bible Translation And thou shalt. 36 The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. Those who walk by sight, and not by faith, are in danger of losing reason itself, when every thing about them looks frightful. You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the LORD shall lead you away. proverb: a brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the. ![]() To complete their misery, it is threatened that by these troubles they should be bereaved of all comfort and hope, and left to utter despair. Definition of a proverb in English Turkish dictionary. We may observe the fulfilling of these threatenings in their present state. a byword) proverb discourse discourse equal byword proverb a byword parable. Many judgments are here stated, which would be the fruits of the curse, and with which God would punish the people of the Jews, for their apostacy and disobedience. a proverb (parallel to an object of horror and a byword) proverb proverb. All his enjoyments are made bitter he cannot take any true comfort in them, for the wrath of God mixes itself with them. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows wherever he is, it rests upon him. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:37 Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:15-44
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