It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened."
So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them.
but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!"
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."
You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.
Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.
"Now therefore, what do I here," says the LORD, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? those who rule over them mock," says the LORD, "and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
the LORD, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.
They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."
Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound."
Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound." He said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web."
She said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies."
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again."
When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He can't save himself.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up."
They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.
Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,
But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you."
"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;
Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.
Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.
"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, the LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
With which your enemies have mocked, the LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don't swerve from your law.
But my neighbors mocked me and said, "This man is still not afraid to be put to death for this matter; and, see, though he fled away before, he now buries the dead again."
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