'Taunt' in the Bible

You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you.

And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom ye did taunt me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?

After she had left to glean, Boaz commanded his servants, "Allow her to glean also among the cut sheaves, and don't taunt her.

Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.

Then David spoke to the men who were standing by him, saying, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living God?”

"This is what Hezekiah says: "Today is a day of trouble, rebuke, and blasphemy, because children are about to be born, but there is no strength to bring them to birth. Perhaps the LORD your God will take note of everything that Rab-shakeh has said, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to taunt the living God, and then he will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the survivors who remain.'"

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.

He was hired for this reason, that I would be frightened and do as he said and sin, so that they would have [grounds to make] a malicious report in order to censure and disgrace me.

“And now I have become their taunt,I have even become a byword to them.

All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

May those who want to harm me be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who arrogantly taunt me be covered with shame and humiliation!

I have prayed for deliverance, because otherwise they will gloat over me; when my foot slips they will arrogantly taunt me.

Deliver me from all my transgressions;do not make me the taunt of fools.

My adversaries taunt me,as if crushing my bones,while all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”

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

At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

But you, O Lord, laugh in disgust at them; you taunt all the nations.

Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;Confusion and dishonor have covered my face.

How long, O God, will [the] adversary taunt? Will [the] enemy treat your name with contempt forever?

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

My enemies taunt me all day long;they ridicule and curse me.

I also have become a reproach and an object of taunting to others;When they see me, they shake their heads [in derision].

So I will have an answer for the one who taunts me,For I trust [completely] in Your word [and its reliability].

that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,“How the oppressor has ceased,And how fury has ceased!

For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated --

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.'"

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 now, what do we have here?" says the Lord. "Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt," says the Lord, "and my name is constantly slandered all day long.

And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

All the women who are left in the royal palace of Judah will be led out to the officers of the king of Babylon. They will taunt you saying, 'Your trusted friends misled you; they have gotten the best of you. Now that your feet are stuck in the mud, they have turned their backs on you.'

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “As My anger and My wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will become detested, an object of horror, a curse and a people scorned; and you will no longer see this place.”

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

In that day one will take up a taunt against you,and lament mournfully, saying,“We are totally ruined!He measures out the allotted land of my people.How He removes it from me!He allots our fields to traitors.”

Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him,with mockery and riddles about him?They will say:Woe to him who amasses what is not his—how much longer?—and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.