'Contempt' in the Bible
I will bless those who bless you,I will curse those who treat you with contempt,and all the peoples on earthwill be blessed through you.
So the servants’ sin was very severe in the presence of the Lord, because they treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.
However, because you treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.”
Before this day is over, the noble women of Persia and Media who hear about the queen’s act will say the same thing to all the king’s officials, resulting in more contempt and fury.
The one who is at ease holds calamity in contemptand thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
They open their mouths against meand strike my cheeks with contempt;they join themselves together against me.
because I greatly feared the crowds,and the contempt of the clans terrified me,so I grew silent and would not go outside?
if I have consumed its produce without paymentor shown contempt for its tenants,
Let lying lips be quieted;they speak arrogantly against the righteouswith pride and contempt.
He pours contempt on noblesand makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
Take insult and contempt away from me,for I have kept Your decrees.
Show us favor, Lord, show us favor,for we’ve had more than enough contempt.
We’ve had more than enoughscorn from the arrogantand contempt from the proud.
Whoever shows contempt for his neighbor lacks sense,but a man with understanding keeps silent.
The one who has contempt for instruction will pay the penalty,but the one who respects a command will be rewarded.
you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say:How the oppressor has quieted down,and how the raging has become quiet!
And now the Lord says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.”
“Have you not noticed what these people have said? They say, ‘The Lord has rejected the two families He had chosen.’ My people are treated with contempt and no longer regarded as a nation among them.
before your wickedness was exposed? It was like the time you were scorned by the daughters of Aram and all those around her, and by the daughters of the Philistines—those who treated you with contempt from every side.
“Now prophesy, son of man, and say: This is what the Lord God says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt. You are to proclaim:A sword! A swordis drawn for slaughter,polished to consume, to flash like lightning.
Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.
For this is what the Lord God says: “Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced over the land of Israel with wholehearted contempt,
This is what the Lord God says: “Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with deep contempt, destroying because of their ancient hatred,
“The house of Israel will no longer be hurt by prickly briers or painful thorns from all their neighbors who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
They will live there securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will live securely when I execute judgments against all their neighbors who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.”
“This is what the Lord God says: Certainly in My burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt so that its pastureland became plunder.
Many of those who sleep in the dustof the earth will awake,some to eternal life,and some to shame and eternal contempt.
Ephraim has provoked bitter anger,so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on himand repay him for his contempt. >
The statutes of Omriand all the practices of Ahab’s househave been observed;you have followed their policies.Therefore, I will make you a desolate placeand the city’s residents an object of contempt;you will bear the scorn of My people.”
I will throw filth on youand treat you with contempt;I will make a spectacle of you.
“Elijah does come first and restores everything,” He replied. “How then is it written about the Son of Man that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
Then Herod, with his soldiers, treated Him with contempt, mocked Him, dressed Him in a brilliant robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.
and who have fallen away, because, to their own harm, they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding Him up to contempt.