Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Bible References
General references
Lamentations 3:63
Look at their sitting and their rising [their actions and secret counsels];
I am their mocking song [the subject of their ridicule].
Look at their sitting and their rising [their actions and secret counsels];
I am their mocking song [the subject of their ridicule].
Nehemiah 4:2
He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore it for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the heaps of dust and rubbish, even the ones that have been burned?”
Job 30:1 “But now those younger than I mock and laugh at me,
Whose fathers I refused to put with the sheepdogs of my flock.
Whose fathers I refused to put with the sheepdogs of my flock.
Psalm 22:6
But I am [treated as] a worm [insignificant and powerless] and not a man;
I am the scorn of men and despised by the people.
But I am [treated as] a worm [insignificant and powerless] and not a man;
I am the scorn of men and despised by the people.
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.
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 44:13
You have made us the reproach and taunt of our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.
You have made us the reproach and taunt of our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.
Psalm 69:11
When I made sackcloth my clothing [as one in mourning],
I became a byword [a mere object of scorn] to them.
When I made sackcloth my clothing [as one in mourning],
I became a byword [a mere object of scorn] to them.
Psalm 79:4
We have become an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation],
A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.
We have become an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation],
A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.
Psalm 123:3
Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious and favorable toward us,
For we are greatly filled with contempt.
Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious and favorable toward us,
For we are greatly filled with contempt.
Psalm 137:3
For there they who took us captive demanded of us a song with words,
And our tormentors [who made a mockery of us demanded] amusement, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
For there they who took us captive demanded of us a song with words,
And our tormentors [who made a mockery of us demanded] amusement, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
Jeremiah 20:7
[Jeremiah said,] O Lord, You have persuaded me and I was deceived;
You are stronger than I and You have prevailed.
I am a laughingstock all day long;
Everyone mocks me.
[Jeremiah said,] O Lord, You have persuaded me and I was deceived;
You are stronger than I and You have prevailed.
I am a laughingstock all day long;
Everyone mocks me.
Jeremiah 48:27
For was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he caught among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head in scorn.
Matthew 27:39
Those who passed by were hurling abuse at Him and jeering at Him, wagging their heads [in scorn and ridicule],
1 Corinthians 4:9
For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles at the end of the line, like men sentenced to death [and paraded as prisoners in a procession], because we have become a spectacle to the world [a show in the world’s amphitheater], both to angels and to men.