21 occurrences

'Scorn' in the Bible

People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me.

Deliver me from all my transgressions, and do not let fools scorn me."

Let my adversaries be ashamed and consumed; let those who seek my destruction be covered with scorn and disgrace.

God, how long will the adversary scorn while the enemy despises your name endlessly?

Remove scorn and disrespect from me, for I observe your decrees.

Our lives overflow with scorn from those who live at ease, with contempt from those who are proud. A Davidic Song of Ascents

They make their land into a desolate place, an object of lasting scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.

I'll make this city into a desolate place and an object of scorn. All who pass by it will be astonished and will scoff because of all its wounds.

I'm now sending for all the tribes from the north, declares the LORD, and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I'll bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I'll utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting desolation.

Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and officials to make them into a ruin, an object of horror and scorn, and a curse, as it is this day;

I'll pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with plague, and I'll make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth. I'll make them a curse, an object of horror, and scorn, and a desolation in all the nations to which I've driven them,

For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Just as my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will be a curse and an object of horror, ridicule, and scorn, and you will never again see this place.'

And why have you provoked me to anger by the works of your hands, by offering sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to settle so that you cut yourselves off and become an object of ridicule and scorn among all the nations of the earth?

I'll take the remnant of Judah that determined to go to the land of Egypt to settle there, and all of them will come to an end in the land of Egypt. They'll fall by the sword, and they'll come to an end by famine. They'll become a curse, an object of horror, ridicule, and scorn.

Indeed, I've sworn by myself," declares the LORD, "that Bozrah will become an object of horror and scorn, a waste, and an object of ridicule. All her towns will become perpetual ruins."

Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a refuge for jackals, a desolate place and an object of scorn.

Then he'll turn his attention to the coastal lands and will capture many. But a commander will put an end to his insolence, repaying him for his scorn.

You keep Omri's statutes and observe the customs of the house of Ahab. Because you live according to their advice, I'll make you desolate and turn your inhabitants into an object of scorn. Therefore you will bear the shame of my people."

"Will not all of these ridicule him with mocking scorn? They will say, "Woe to the one who hordes for himself what isn't his. How long will you enrich yourself by extortion?'

"A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn.'

They're like little children who sit in the marketplace and shout to each other, "A wedding song we played for you, the dance you all did scorn. A woeful dirge we chanted, too, but then you would not mourn.'

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
לעג 
La`ag 
Usage: 18

בּזה 
Bazah 
Usage: 42

לוּץ 
Luwts 
Usage: 27

לעג 
La`ag 
Usage: 7

לצון 
Latsown 
Usage: 3

משׂחק 
Mischaq 
Usage: 1

צחק 
Ts@choq 
Usage: 2

קלס 
Qalac 
Usage: 4

שׂחק שׂחוק 
S@chowq 
Usage: 15

שׂחק 
Sachaq 
Usage: 36

καταγελάω 
Katagelao 
Usage: 3

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