14 Verses About Derision from 8 Books

Exodus 32:25

When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),

Ezekiel 23:32

Thus says the Lord the LORD: You will drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in derision; it contains much.

Ezekiel 36:4

therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord the LORD: Thus says the Lord the LORD to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;

Habakkuk 1:10

Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

Hosea 7:16

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 20:8

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of the LORD is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.

Jeremiah 48:26

Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against the LORD: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.



Jeremiah 48:27

For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

Jeremiah 48:39

How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.

Job 30:1

"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

Lamentations 3:14

I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

Psalms 2:4

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Psalms 44:13

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Psalms 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.







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