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'Derision' in the Bible

We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

Because from the time I speak I cry out, 'Violence and destruction,' I cry, For the word of Jehovah hath been to me For reproach and for derision all the day.

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersRejection Of GodRejection Of God's WordRejecting God's Wordjoking

Declare ye him drunk, For against Jehovah he made himself great And Moab hath stricken in his vomit, And he hath been for a derision -- even he.

Verse ConceptsdefianceVomittingGod Making Drunk

And was not Israel the derision to thee? Among thieves was he found? For since thy words concerning him, Thou dost bemoan thyself.

Verse Conceptsthieves

How hath it been broken down! they have howled, How hath Moab turned the neck ashamed, And Moab hath been for a derision. And for a terror to all round about her.

Verse ConceptsTurning One's BackMade A HorrorShame Has Come

By thy blood that thou hast shed thou hast been guilty, And by thine idols that thou hast made thou hast been defiled, And thou causest thy days to draw near, And art come in unto thine years, Therefore I have given thee a reproach to nations, And a derision to all the lands.

Verse ConceptsSheddingPeople Polluting ThemselvesFound GuiltyJudged As Murderers

They turn back -- not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This is their derision in the land of Egypt!

Verse ConceptsFaultsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfRidicule, Nature OfAccuracyKilled With The Sword

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ἐκμυκτερίζω 
Ekmukterizo 
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