Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

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Bible References

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Job 17:6

“But He has made me a byword and mockery among the people,
And I have become one in whose face people spit.
Psalm 35:15

But in my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together [against me];
The slanderers whom I did not know gathered against me;
They slandered and reviled me without ceasing.
Psalm 44:14

You make us a byword among the nations,
A laughingstock among the people.
Psalm 69:12

They who sit in the [city’s] gate talk about me and mock me,
And I am the song of the drunkards.
Lamentations 3:14

I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people,
And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.

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Matthew 27:30
They spat on Him, and took the reed and struck Him repeatedly on the head.