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@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ The images of days being brought to a close and years coming to an end are both
 
 "have brought your days to an end" or "have ended your life"
 
-# I will make you a reproach to the nations and a laughingstock to all the lands
+# I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the lands
 
-This can be reworded so that the nouns "reproach" and "laughingstock" are expressed as verbs. Alternate translation: "I will make the nations reproach you and all the lands ridicule you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])
+This can be reworded so that the nouns "scorn" and "laughingstock" are expressed as verbs. Alternate translation: "I will make the nations scorn you and all the lands ridicule you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])
 
 # a reproach