I am (A)a laughingstock to my friends;
    I, who (B)called to God and he answered me,
    a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

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15 When he (A)calls to me, I will answer him;
    I will be with him in trouble;
    I will rescue him and (B)honor him.

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30 “But now they (A)laugh at me,
    men who are (B)younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to set with the dogs of my flock.

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Bear with me, and I will speak,
    and after I have spoken, (A)mock on.

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“He has made me (A)a byword of the peoples,
    and I am one before whom men spit.

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Surely there are mockers about me,
    and my eye dwells on their (A)provocation.

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10 Men have (A)gaped at me with their mouth;
    they have (B)struck me insolently on the cheek;
    they (C)mass themselves together against me.

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

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32 Now when they heard of (A)the resurrection of the dead, (B)some mocked. But others said, (C)“We will hear you again about this.”

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The Law and the Kingdom of God

14 (A)The Pharisees, who were (B)lovers of money, heard all these things, and they (C)ridiculed him.

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40 And they laughed at him. But he (A)put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.

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29 and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they (A)mocked him, saying, “Hail, (B)King of the Jews!”

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But as for me, I will look to the Lord;
    (A)I will wait for the God of my salvation;
    my God will hear me.

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(A)Call to me and I will answer you, (B)and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

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Whoever (A)walks in uprightness fears the Lord,
    but he who is (B)devious in his ways despises him.

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16 like profane mockers at a feast,[a]
    they (A)gnash at me with their teeth.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 35:16 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain

All who see me (A)mock me;
    they make mouths at me; they (B)wag their heads;
(C)“He trusts in the Lord; let him (D)deliver him;
    let him rescue him, for he (E)delights in him!”

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20 My friends (A)scorn me;
    my eye pours out tears to God,

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Should your babble silence men,
    and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

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29 (A)Please turn; let no injustice be done.
    Turn now; my vindication is at stake.

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