The inhabitants of Jerusalem will be scourged by people worldwide because, as a people, they reject their Deliverer and his awesome use of priesthood power to perform numerous signs and wonders. His people at Jerusalem, for the most part, will turn their hearts away from the Holy One of Israel and despise him, so in that generation they will “wander in the flesh, and perish, and become a hiss and a byword, and be hated among all nations.” And the persecution and hatred will continue in succeeding generations (including centuries of persecutions, inquisitions, pogroms, and the Holocaust) because, as a people, they continue to reject their God (see commentary at 2 Nephi 25:9).