Psalm 44:16
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16 at the words of the taunters and revilers,
at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.(A)
Psalm 8:2
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2 Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.(A)
Psalm 74:22-23
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22 Rise up, O God, plead your cause;
remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.(A)
23 Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
the uproar of your adversaries that goes up continually.(B)
Psalm 74:18
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18 Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
and an impious people reviles your name.(A)
Psalm 74:10
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10 How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?(A)
Isaiah 37:23-24
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23 “Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and haughtily lifted your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel!(A)
24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, ‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I came to its remotest height,
its densest forest.(B)
Isaiah 37:17
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17 Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.(A)
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Isaiah 37:3-4
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3 They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.(A) 4 It may be that the Lord your God heard the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”(B)
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Psalm 79:12
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12 Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors
the taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord!(A)
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