'Mockery' in the Bible
Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you made a mockery of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!"
{Surely} mockery [is] with me, and my eye {rests} on their provocation.
Yes, [it is] wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let [the] ransom's greatness turn you aside.
Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery, rulers of these people in Jerusalem:
They [are] vanity, a work of mockery, at the time of their punishment, they will perish.
They [are] worthless, a work of mockery. At the time of their punishment, they will perish.
And it will be [an] object of taunting and [an] object of mockery, a warning and a horror to the nations that [are] around you whenever I execute judgments against you in anger and in wrath and in furious punishments! I, Yahweh, have spoken!
Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your rage turn away from your city Jerusalem, {your holy mountain}, because through our sins and through the iniquities of our ancestors Jerusalem and your people have become an object of mockery among all of our neighbors.