Jeremiah 20:7
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Jeremiah Denounces His Persecutors
7 O Lord, you have enticed me,
and I was enticed;
you have overpowered me,
and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long;
everyone mocks me.(A)
Lamentations 3:14
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14 I have become the laughingstock of all my people,
the object of their taunt songs all day long.(A)
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
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9 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to humans.(A) 10 We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are sensible people in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.(B) 11 To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are naked and beaten and homeless,(C) 12 and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;(D) 13 when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day.
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Hosea 9:7
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7 The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come.
Israel will cry out,[a]
“The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad!”
Because of your great iniquity,
your hostility is great.(A)
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- 9.7 Or will know
Ezekiel 3:14
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14 The spirit lifted me up and bore me away; I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the Lord being strong upon me.(A)
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Jeremiah 20:9
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9 If I say, “I will not mention him
or speak any more in his name,”
then within me there is something like a burning fire
shut up in my bones;
I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.(A)
Psalm 69:9-12
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9 It is zeal for your house that has consumed me;
the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.(A)
10 When I humbled my soul with fasting,[a]
they insulted me for doing so.(B)
11 When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.(C)
12 I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate,
and the drunkards make songs about me.(D)
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- 69.10 Gk Syr: Heb I wept, with fasting my soul, or I made my soul mourn with fasting
Psalm 22:6-7
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6 But I am a worm and not human,
scorned by others and despised by the people.(A)
7 All who see me mock me;
they sneer at me; they shake their heads;(B)
Hebrews 11:36
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36 Others suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and imprisonment.(A)
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1 Corinthians 9:6
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6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?(A)
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Acts 17:32
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32 When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some scoffed, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”
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Acts 17:18
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18 Also some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some said, “What does this pretentious babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities.” (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)
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Luke 23:35-36
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35 And the people stood by watching, but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah[a] of God, his chosen one!”(A) 36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine(B)
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- 23.35 Or the Christ
Luke 23:11
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11 Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him; then he put an elegant robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.(A)
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Luke 22:63-64
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The Mocking and Beating of Jesus
63 Now the men who were holding Jesus[a] began to mock him and beat him;(A) 64 they also blindfolded him and kept asking him, “Prophesy! Who is it who struck you?”
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- 22.63 Gk him
Luke 16:14
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The Law and the Kingdom of God
14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.(A)
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Micah 3:8
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8 But as for me, I am filled with power,
with the spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob his transgression
and to Israel his sin.(A)
Jeremiah 29:26
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26 The Lord himself has made you priest instead of the priest Jehoiada, so that there may be officers in the house of the Lord to control any madman who plays the prophet, to put him in the stocks and the collar.(A)
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Jeremiah 17:16
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16 But I have not run away from being a shepherd[a] in your service,
nor have I desired the fatal day.
You know what came from my lips;
it was before your face.
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- 17.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Jeremiah 15:18
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18 Why is my pain unceasing,
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Truly, you are to me like a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail.(A)
Jeremiah 15:10
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Jeremiah Complains Again and Is Reassured
10 Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.(A)
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Jeremiah 1:18-19
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18 And I for my part have made you today a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.(A) 19 They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, says the Lord, to deliver you.”(B)
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Psalm 35:15-16
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15 But at my stumbling they gathered in glee;
they gathered together against me;
ruffians whom I did not know
tore at me without ceasing;(A)
16 they impiously mocked more and more,[a]
gnashing at me with their teeth.
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- 35.16 Cn Compare Gk: Heb like the profanest of mockers of a cake
2 Kings 2:23
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23 He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!”
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Numbers 11:11-15
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11 So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a wet nurse carries a nursing child, to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors’?(A) 13 Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat!’(B) 14 I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me.(C) 15 If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”(D)
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