Jeremiah 20:7
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7 O Lord, You [a]induced me, and I was persuaded;
(A)You are stronger than I, and have prevailed.
(B)I am [b]in derision daily;
Everyone mocks me.
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- Jeremiah 20:7 enticed or persuaded
- Jeremiah 20:7 Lit. a laughingstock all the day
Lamentations 3:14
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Ezekiel 3:14
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14 So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the [a]heat of my spirit; but (A)the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.
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- Ezekiel 3:14 Or anger
Psalm 69:9-12
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9 (A)Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
(B)And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,
That became my reproach.
11 I also [a]made sackcloth my garment;
I became a byword to them.
12 Those who [b]sit in the gate speak against me,
And I am the song of the (C)drunkards.
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- Psalm 69:11 Symbolic of sorrow
- Psalm 69:12 Sit as judges
Psalm 22:6-7
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6 But I am (A)a worm, and no man;
(B)A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
7 (C)All those who see Me ridicule Me;
They [a]shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
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- Psalm 22:7 Show contempt with their mouth
Hebrews 11:36
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36 Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and (A)of chains and imprisonment.
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1 Corinthians 9:6
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6 Or is it only Barnabas and I (A)who have no right to refrain from working?
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1 Corinthians 4:9-13
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9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a (A)spectacle [a]to the world, both to angels and to men. 10 We are (B)fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! (C)We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored! 11 To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 (D)And we labor, working with our own hands. (E)Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we [b]entreat. (F)We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
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- 1 Corinthians 4:9 Lit. theater
- 1 Corinthians 4:13 exhort, encourage
Acts 17:32
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32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.”
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Acts 17:18
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18 [a]Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this [b]babbler want to say?”
Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them (A)Jesus and the resurrection.
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- Acts 17:18 NU, M add also
- Acts 17:18 Lit. seed picker, an idler who makes a living picking up scraps
Luke 23:35-36
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35 And (A)the people stood looking on. But even the (B)rulers with them sneered, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ, the chosen of God.”
36 The soldiers also mocked Him, coming and offering Him (C)sour wine,
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Luke 23:11
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11 (A)Then Herod, with his [a]men of war, treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.
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- Luke 23:11 troops
Luke 22:63-64
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Jesus Mocked and Beaten(A)
63 (B)Now the men who held Jesus mocked Him and (C)beat Him. 64 [a]And having blindfolded Him, they (D)struck Him on the face and asked Him, saying, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck You?”
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- Luke 22:64 NU And having blindfolded Him, they asked Him
Luke 16:14
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The Law, the Prophets, and the Kingdom
14 Now the Pharisees, (A)who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they [a]derided Him.
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- Luke 16:14 Lit. turned up their nose at
Micah 3:8
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8 But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,
And of justice and might,
(A)To declare to Jacob his transgression
And to Israel his sin.
Hosea 9:7
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7 The (A)days of punishment have come;
The days of recompense have come.
Israel knows!
The prophet is a (B)fool,
(C)The spiritual man is insane,
Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
Jeremiah 29:26
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26 “The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there should be (A)officers in the house of the Lord over every man who is (B)demented and considers himself a prophet, that you should (C)put him in prison and in the stocks.
Jeremiah 20:9
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9 Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him,
Nor speak anymore in His name.”
But His word was in my heart like a (A)burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
I was weary of holding it back,
And (B)I could not.
Jeremiah 17:16
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16 As for me, (A)I have not hurried away from being a shepherd who follows You,
Nor have I desired the woeful day;
You know what came out of my lips;
It was right there before You.
Jeremiah 15:18
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18 Why is my (A)pain perpetual
And my wound incurable,
Which refuses to be healed?
Will You surely be to me (B)like an unreliable stream,
As waters that [a]fail?
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- Jeremiah 15:18 Or cannot be trusted
Jeremiah 15:10
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Jeremiah’s Dejection
10 (A)Woe is me, my mother,
That you have borne me,
A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole [a]earth!
I have neither lent for interest,
Nor have men lent to me for interest.
Every one of them curses me.
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- Jeremiah 15:10 Or land
Jeremiah 1:18-19
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18 For behold, I have made you this day
(A)A fortified city and an iron pillar,
And bronze walls against the whole land—
Against the kings of Judah,
Against its princes,
Against its priests,
And against the people of the land.
19 They will fight against you,
But they shall not prevail against you.
For I am with you,” says the Lord, “to deliver you.”
Psalm 35:15-16
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15 But in my [a]adversity they rejoiced
And gathered together;
Attackers gathered against me,
And I did not know it;
They tore at me and did not cease;
16 With ungodly mockers at feasts
They gnashed at me with their teeth.
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- Psalm 35:15 limping, stumbling
2 Kings 2:23
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23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
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Numbers 11:11-15
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11 (A)So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the [a]burden of all these people on me? 12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, (B)‘Carry them in your bosom, as a (C)guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You (D)swore[b] to their fathers? 13 (E)Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ 14 (F)I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me. 15 If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and (G)do not let me see my wretchedness!”
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- Numbers 11:11 responsibility
- Numbers 11:12 solemnly promised
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