Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Scorn
General references
Bible References
Makest
Psalm 79:4
We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.
Psalm 80:6
You have made our neighbors dislike us, and our enemies insult us.
Psalm 89:51
Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.
Jeremiah 24:9
I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.
Ezekiel 36:19
I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.
Scorn
Psalm 123:3
Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.
Jeremiah 48:27
For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel? Did you think that they were nothing but thieves, that you shook your head in contempt every time you talked about them?
General references
Psalm 89:50
Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!
Lamentations 3:14
I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.