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Psalms 22:7
All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

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Psalms 22:7
All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

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Genesis 19:9
They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

1 Kings 22:27
Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

2 Kings 9:11
When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

Matthew 12:24
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

John 9:29
We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

Acts 18:13
saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

Acts 22:22
They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”

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Genesis 19:14
Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Psalms 68:18
You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

Isaiah 53:1
Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Isaiah 53:8
He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Jeremiah 20:7
Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

Matthew 26:71
When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

Luke 23:2
They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

John 1:45
Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Philippians 2:7
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

1 Peter 2:23
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

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Exodus 11:7
But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal, that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

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Deuteronomy 28:59
then Yahweh will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.

Jeremiah 19:8
I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

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Joshua 10:21
all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

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Nehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”

Nehemiah 2:19
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Psalms 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Psalms 44:16
at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

Psalms 74:22
Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

Psalms 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Psalms 79:10
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

Jeremiah 48:27
For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

Mark 5:40
They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.

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Job 11:3
Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

Job 17:6
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

Job 21:3
Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.

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Job 16:9
He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

Job 16:17
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

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Job 16:22
For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

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Job 30:1
“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

Lamentations 3:14
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.

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2 Samuel 16:7
Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!

Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

Psalms 3:1
Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

Psalms 27:8
When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

Psalms 59:7
Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

Psalms 71:10
For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

Psalms 105:15
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

Psalms 137:3
For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.

Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

Luke 22:53
When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

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Psalms 11:1
In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?

Psalms 16:1
Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

Psalms 16:10
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

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Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Psalms 22:9
But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.

Psalms 22:10
I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

Psalms 22:11
Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

Psalms 22:24
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

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Psalms 31:11
Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

Mark 9:12
He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

Luke 16:15
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Philippians 2:8
And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

1 Peter 2:4
Come to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

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Psalms 41:5
My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

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Psalms 41:8
“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

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Psalms 49:7
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

Psalms 49:12
But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

Psalms 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

Psalms 49:19
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

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Psalms 69:26
For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

Lamentations 2:17
Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

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Psalms 102:3
For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Psalms 102:4
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

Psalms 102:8
My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

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Psalms 125:1
Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

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Psalms 125:2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.

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Song of Solomon 5:16
His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.

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Isaiah 11:1
A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

Isaiah 42:2
He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.

Isaiah 42:3
He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

Isaiah 42:4
He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”

Isaiah 52:13
Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

Malachi 1:1
A revelation, Yahweh’s word to Israel by Malachi.

Matthew 3:17
Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Matthew 12:18
“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

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2 Kings 18:30
Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

2 Kings 19:10
“Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 19:22
Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 36:7
But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’ ”

Isaiah 36:15
Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’

Isaiah 37:10
“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 37:11
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?

Isaiah 37:24
By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

Ezekiel 35:10
“ ‘ “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it,’ although Yahweh was there,

Daniel 3:15
Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god who will deliver you out of my hands?”

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Psalms 13:2
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

Psalms 35:17
Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

Psalms 35:18
I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.

Psalms 35:19
Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Psalms 35:20
For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Psalms 89:42
You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

Psalms 143:3
For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Psalms 143:4
Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

Lamentations 1:5
Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

Lamentations 1:12
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Hebrews 10:36
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

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Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Joel 2:18
Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

Joel 2:19
Yahweh answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

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Psalms 44:22
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

Jeremiah 15:15
Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

Zechariah 11:8
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

John 15:21
But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

John 15:23
He who hates me, hates my Father also.

John 15:24
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

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Zechariah 11:12
I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

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Zechariah 11:13
Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter—the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in Yahweh’s house.

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Mark 11:29
Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

Mark 11:30
The baptism of John—was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me.”

Mark 11:31
They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we should say, ‘From heaven;’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

Mark 11:32
If we should say, ‘From men’ ”—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.

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Luke 22:31
The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

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Matthew 20:19
and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

Matthew 27:27
Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.

Matthew 27:28
They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him.

Mark 14:65
Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

Mark 15:17
They clothed him with purple; and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

Mark 15:18
They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

Mark 15:19
They struck his head with a reed and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

Luke 18:32
For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

Luke 22:63
The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

Luke 22:64
Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

Luke 23:18
But they all cried out together, saying, “Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!”—

Luke 23:23
But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

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Matthew 26:59
Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

Matthew 26:60
and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward

Matthew 26:62
The high priest stood up and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”

Matthew 26:63
But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

Matthew 26:64
Jesus said to him, “You have said so. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

Matthew 26:65
Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

Matthew 26:66
What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!”

Luke 22:67
“If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you won’t believe,

Luke 22:68
and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.

Luke 22:69
From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

Luke 22:70
They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?” He said to them, “You say it, because I am.”

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Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

Psalms 69:21
They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

Matthew 27:66
So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.

Mark 15:30
save yourself, and come down from the cross!”

Mark 15:31
Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.

Luke 22:22
The Son of Man indeed goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

Luke 23:34
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

Luke 23:36
The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,

Luke 23:37
and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”

Luke 23:38
An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

John 19:24
Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, “They parted my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.” Therefore the soldiers did these things.

John 19:28
After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty!”

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Isaiah 4:4
when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

John 5:44
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

2 Timothy 1:12
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

Hebrews 11:26
considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Hebrews 13:13
Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

1 Peter 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

1 Peter 4:16
But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

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Mark 15:16
The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.

John 18:40
Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

John 19:1
So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him.

John 19:2
The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.

John 19:3
They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.

John 19:4
Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

John 19:6
When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

John 19:15
They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

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Matthew 10:32
Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 10:33
But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.

Mark 8:38
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

Luke 9:26
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Luke 12:8
“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God;

Luke 12:9
but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.

John 12:43
for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

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1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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Proverbs 14:13
Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”

Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

Luke 6:25
Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Ephesians 5:4
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.


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