But Sarah (A)saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, (B)laughing.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:9 Possibly laughing in mockery

15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh (A)persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, (B)so also it is now.

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22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, (A)one by a slave woman and (B)one by a free woman.

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Sarai and Hagar

16 (A)Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was (B)Hagar.

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Jerusalem remembers
    in the days of her affliction and wandering
(A)all the precious things
    that were hers from (B)days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the foe,
    and there was none to help her,
her foes gloated over her;
    they (C)mocked at her downfall.

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11 Even a child (A)makes himself known by his acts,
    by whether his conduct is pure and upright.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:11 Or Even a child can dissemble in his actions, though his conduct seems pure and upright

13 You have made us (A)the taunt of our neighbors,
    the derision and (B)scorn of those around us.
14 You have made us (C)a byword among the nations,
    (D)a laughingstock[a] among the peoples.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 44:14 Hebrew a shaking of the head

10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,
    my adversaries taunt me,
(A)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”

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But I am (A)a worm and not a man,
    (B)scorned by mankind and (C)despised by the people.

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16 (A)But they kept mocking the messengers of God, (B)despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, (C)until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

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10 (A)So the couriers went from city to city through the country of (B)Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but (C)they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.

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36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even (A)chains and imprisonment.

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