Deuteronomy 28:59

28:59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

Psalms 22:7

22:7 All who see me taunt ¹  me;

they mock me ²  and shake their heads. ³ 

Psalms 44:14

44:14 You made us ⁴  an object of ridicule ⁵  among the nations;

foreigners treat us with contempt. ⁶ 

Isaiah 37:22

37:22 this is what the Lord says about him: ⁷ 

“The virgin daughter Zion ⁸ 

despises you – she makes fun of you;

daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head after you. ⁹ 

Matthew 27:39

27:39 Those ¹⁰  who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads

Mark 15:29

15:29 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

¹ tn Or “scoff at, deride, mock.”

² tn Heb “they separate with a lip.” Apparently this refers to their verbal taunting.

³ sn Shake their heads. Apparently this refers to a taunting gesture. See also Job 16:4; Ps 109:25; Lam 2:15.

⁴ tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).

⁵ tn Heb “a proverb,” or “[the subject of] a mocking song.”

⁶ tn Heb “a shaking of the head among the peoples.” Shaking the head was a derisive gesture (see Jer 18:16; Lam 2:15).

⁷ tn Heb “this is the word which the Lord has spoken about him.”

⁸ sn Zion (Jerusalem) is pictured here as a young, vulnerable daughter whose purity is being threatened by the would-be Assyrian rapist. The personification hints at the reality which the young girls of the city would face if the Assyrians conquer it.

⁹ sn Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.

¹⁰ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.