'Insult' in the Bible

she called to the men of her household and said to them, “Look at this, your master has brought a Hebrew [into the household] to mock and insult us; he came to me to lie with me, and I screamed.

Then she told her husband the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you brought among us, came to me to mock and insult me;

if I had not feared insult from the enemy,or feared that these foes might misunderstandand say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed;it wasn’t the Lord who did all this.’”

When she rose to glean, Boaz commanded his servants, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not insult her.

These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together in the field.

When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, "Blessed be the LORD who has judged the dispute over my insult at the hand of Nabal, and has held back his servant from evil. The LORD has repaid Nabal's wickedness."

They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This is a day of distress and anxiety, of punishment and humiliation; for children have come to [the time of their] birth and there is no strength to rescue them.

It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to taunt and defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. So offer a prayer for the remnant [of His people] that is left [in Judah].’”

Turn your ear, LORD, and listen! Open your eyes, LORD, and observe! Listen to the message sent by Sennacherib to insult the living God!

He also wrote letters to insult the Lord God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands have not delivered their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.”

The righteous will see this and rejoice; the innocent will insult him, saying,

He does not slander, or do harm to others, or insult his neighbor.

But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Let them be shamed and abashed altogether, who rejoice at my misfortune. Let them put on shame and insult, who magnify themselves against me.

You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

because zeal for Your house has consumed me,and the insults of those who insult Youhave fallen on me.

I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

God, how long will the enemy mock?Will the foe insult Your name forever?

Rise up, O God! Defend your honor! Remember how fools insult you all day long!

We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

You have made our neighbors dislike us, and our enemies insult us.

Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.

Take insult and contempt away from me,for I have kept Your decrees.

Whoever corrects a mocker invites only insult, and whoever rebukes the wicked will himself become stained.

A fool’s displeasure is known at once,but whoever ignores an insult is sensible.

It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh [the commander], whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to taunt and defy the living God, and will avenge the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant [of His people] that is left.’”

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to taunt and defy the living God.

Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult."

All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated; [the] craftsmen of idols go together in insult.

Instead of your shame, a double portion, and [instead of] insult, they will rejoice [over] their portion. Therefore they will take a double portion in their land; {they shall possess everlasting joy}.

You are aware LORD, remember me, pay attention to me, and vindicate me in front of those who pursue me. You are patient don't take me away. Know that I suffer insult because of you!

For whenever I speak, I must shout out;I shout violence and destruction,Because the word of the Lord has become to meA reprimand and a mockery and has brought me insult all day long.

But Yahweh [is] with me like a powerful warrior. {Therefore} my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be very ashamed, for they will not achieve success. [Their] {everlasting insult} will not be forgotten.

You are provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands. You are burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live for a while. As a result, you will be cut off and become an object of cursing and insult among all the nations of earth.

All of your enemies insult you with gaping mouths. They hiss and grind their teeth while saying, "We have devoured her completely. Yes, this is the day that we anticipated! We found it at last; we have seen it!"

I'm also going to turn you into a waste and an object of insult among the nations that surround you and in front of every person who passes by.

As a result, Jerusalem will become an insult, an object of taunt, an example of chastisement, and a useless waste to all the nations that surround you when I carry out my sentence against you in my anger, my burning rage, and my burning rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken it.

And I will raise for them a garden plot of renown, and they will {no longer} be victims of famine in the land, and they will not bear any more the insult of the nations.

Therefore prophesy against the land of Israel, and you must say to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I spoke in my passion and in my anger [the] insult of [the] peoples you have endured."

"And I will not let you hear [any] longer the insult of the nations, and [the] disgrace of [the] peoples you will not bear [any] longer; you [yourself] will not cause your nation to stumble," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.'"

Is there wickedness (idolatry) in Gilead?Surely the people there are worthless.In Gilgal [they defy Me when] they sacrifice bulls,Yes, [after My judgment] their [pagan] altars are like the stone heapsIn the furrows of the fields.

“You are blessed when they insult and persecute you and falsely say every kind of evil against you because of Me.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who insult you and persecute you,

and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay them.

The robbers who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him with the same words.

they will insult Him in cruel sport, spit on Him, scourge Him, and put Him to death; but on the third day He will rise to life again."

And again he sent to them another bondman; and at him they threw stones, and struck him on the head, and sent him away with insult.

Let this Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, so that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with Him were also insulting Him.

You are blessed when people hate you,when they exclude you, insult you,and slander your name as evilbecause of the Son of Man.

Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who insult you.

One of the experts in the law answered Him, “Teacher, when You say these things You insult us too.”

And again he sent another bondman; but they, having beaten him also, and cast insult upon him, sent him away empty.

When there was an attempt by both the Gentiles and the Jews, together with their rulers, to shamefully mistreat and to stone them,

But when they began to oppose him and insult him, he shook out his clothes in protest and told them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles."

The men standing near him asked, "Do you mean to insult God's high priest?"

For even the Messiah did not please Himself. On the contrary, as it is written, The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.

All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

They are not to insult anyone or be argumentative. Instead, they are to be gentle and perfectly courteous to everyone.

While being reviled and insulted, He did not revile or insult in return; while suffering, He made no threats [of vengeance], but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges fairly.

not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you can inherit a blessing.

They insult you now because they are surprised that you are no longer joining them in the same excesses of wild living.

especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,

Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.