'Taunt' in the Bible
then I will uproot them from upon my land that I have given to them, and this house that I have consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face, and I will make it a proverb and a taunt among all the nations.
For this reason he was hired: to frighten [me] so that I would act and sin, so that they would have a bad report so they could taunt me.
From all my transgressions deliver me; do not make me [the] taunt of [the] fool.
[As] with a shattering in my bones my oppressors taunt me, while they say to me {all day}, "Where [is] your God?"
You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.
How long, O God, will [the] adversary taunt? Will [the] enemy treat your name with contempt forever?
We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.
All passing along [the] road plunder him; he has become a taunt to his neighbors.
[by] which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh, [by] which they taunt the steps of your anointed one.
that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon, and you will say: "How [the] oppressor has ceased! [his] insolence has ceased.
Maybe Yahweh your God heard [the] words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to taunt [the] living God, and he will rebuke the words that Yahweh your God hears. And you must lift up a prayer for the benefit of the remnant that is found.'"
Yahweh, extend your ear and hear! Yahweh, open your eyes and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to taunt the living God!
And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them.
Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, 'Woe to him who heaps up what is not his'? [For] how long? And, '[Woe to him] who makes himself heavy with pledges'?