12 Bible Verses about Abuse, To God's People

Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his words and misused his prophets until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men and despised of the people. All those that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, Turn him over to the LORD, let him deliver him, let him save him, seeing he delighted in him.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face. I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother's sons. For the zeal of thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me.read more.
When I wept with fasting of my soul, thou hast been a reproach unto me. I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a proverb to them. They that sat in the gate spoke against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly weary of being held in contempt.

O LORD, thou hast seduced me, and I was seduced; thou wert stronger than I and hast overcome me; I am in derision daily; every one mocks me.

But it came to pass that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was wroth and took great indignation and mocked the Jews. And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Is this to be permitted them? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish on time? Will they resurrect the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which were burned? Now Tobiah, the Ammonite, was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox were to go up it, he would break down their stone wall.read more.
Hear, O our God; for we are despised; and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of their captivity.

And it seems strange to those that speak evil of you, that ye do not run with them to the same unchecked dissolution;

Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean; from now on I will go unto the Gentiles.

I know thy works and tribulation and poverty, (but thou art rich), and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.