Scorning and Mocking

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 22:6-8 OT

  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying, “He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since…

• Isaiah 53:3 OT

  He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

• Luke 18:32 NT

  For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

• Matthew 9:24 NT

  he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” They were ridiculing him.

• Matthew 27:29 NT

  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!”

• Genesis 21:9 OT

  Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

• Galatians 4:29 NT

  But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

• Job 12:4 OT

  I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

• Hebrews 11:36 NT

  Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

• Jeremiah 20:7 OT

  Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

• Jeremiah 20:8 OT

  For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

• Nehemiah 2:19 OT

  But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

• 2 Peter 3:3 NT

  knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

• 2 Peter 3:4 NT

  and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

• Acts 2:13 NT

  Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

• Isaiah 5:19 OT

  who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

• Jeremiah 17:15 OT

  Behold, they ask me, “Where is Yahweh’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”

• 2 Chronicles 36:16 OT

  but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

• Lamentations 1:7 OT

  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 no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked…

• Psalms 123:4 OT

  Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

• Lamentations 3:14 OT

  I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.

• Lamentations 3:63 OT

  You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.

• Acts 17:32 NT

  Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

• 2 Chronicles 30:6-10 OT

  So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and…