Psalm 44:16
New Living Translation
16 All we hear are the taunts of our mockers.
All we see are our vengeful enemies.
Psalm 8:2
New Living Translation
2 You have taught children and infants
to tell of your strength,[a]
silencing your enemies
and all who oppose you.
Footnotes
- 8:2 Greek version reads to give you praise. Compare Matt 21:16.
Psalm 74:22-23
New Living Translation
22 Arise, O God, and defend your cause.
Remember how these fools insult you all day long.
23 Don’t overlook what your enemies have said
or their growing uproar.
Psalm 74:18
New Living Translation
18 See how these enemies insult you, Lord.
A foolish nation has dishonored your name.
Psalm 74:10
New Living Translation
10 How long, O God, will you allow our enemies to insult you?
Will you let them dishonor your name forever?
Isaiah 37:23-24
New Living Translation
23 “Whom have you been defying and ridiculing?
Against whom did you raise your voice?
At whom did you look with such haughty eyes?
It was the Holy One of Israel!
24 By your messengers you have defied the Lord.
You have said, ‘With my many chariots
I have conquered the highest mountains—
yes, the remotest peaks of Lebanon.
I have cut down its tallest cedars
and its finest cypress trees.
I have reached its farthest heights
and explored its deepest forests.
Isaiah 37:17
New Living Translation
17 Bend down, O Lord, and listen! Open your eyes, O Lord, and see! Listen to Sennacherib’s words of defiance against the living God.
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Isaiah 37:3-4
New Living Translation
3 They told him, “This is what King Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble, insults, and disgrace. It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to deliver the baby. 4 But perhaps the Lord your God has heard the Assyrian chief of staff,[a] sent by the king to defy the living God, and will punish him for his words. Oh, pray for those of us who are left!”
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Psalm 79:12
New Living Translation
12 O Lord, pay back our neighbors seven times
for the scorn they have hurled at you.
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