Nehemiah 4:4
New Living Translation
4 Then I prayed, “Hear us, our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land!
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Psalm 123:3-4
New Living Translation
3 Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy,
for we have had our fill of contempt.
4 We have had more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud
and the contempt of the arrogant.
Psalm 79:12
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12 O Lord, pay back our neighbors seven times
for the scorn they have hurled at you.
Hosea 12:14
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14 But the people of Israel
have bitterly provoked the Lord,
so their Lord will now sentence them to death
in payment for their sins.
Proverbs 3:34
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34 The Lord mocks the mockers
but is gracious to the humble.[a]
1 Samuel 17:26
New Living Translation
26 David asked the soldiers standing nearby, “What will a man get for killing this Philistine and ending his defiance of Israel? Who is this pagan Philistine anyway, that he is allowed to defy the armies of the living God?”
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