2 Kings 19:21

19:21 This is what the Lord says about him: ¹ 

“The virgin daughter Zion ² 

despises you, she makes fun of you;

Daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head after you. ³ 

Psalms 22:7

22:7 All who see me taunt ⁴  me;

they mock me ⁵  and shake their heads. ⁶ 

Psalms 44:14-15

44:14 You made us ⁷  an object of ridicule ⁸  among the nations;

foreigners treat us with contempt. ⁹ 

44:15 All day long I feel humiliated ¹⁰ 

and am overwhelmed with shame, ¹¹ 

Isaiah 37:22

37:22 this is what the Lord says about him: ¹² 

“The virgin daughter Zion ¹³ 

despises you – she makes fun of you;

daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head after you. ¹⁴ 

Jeremiah 18:16

18:16 So their land will become an object of horror. ¹⁵ 

People will forever hiss out their scorn over it.

All who pass that way will be filled with horror

and will shake their heads in derision. ¹⁶ 

Matthew 27:39

27:39 Those ¹⁷  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,

[19:21]  ¹ tn Heb “this is the word which the Lord has spoken about him.”

[19:21]  ² 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.

[19:21]  ³ sn Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.

[22:7]  ⁴ tn Or “scoff at, deride, mock.”

[22:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “they separate with a lip.” Apparently this refers to their verbal taunting.

[22:7]  ⁶ sn Shake their heads. Apparently this refers to a taunting gesture. See also Job 16:4; Ps 109:25; Lam 2:15.

[44:14]  ⁷ tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).

[44:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “a proverb,” or “[the subject of] a mocking song.”

[44:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “a shaking of the head among the peoples.” Shaking the head was a derisive gesture (see Jer 18:16; Lam 2:15).

[44:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all the day my humiliation [is] in front of me.”

[44:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the shame of my face covers me.”

[37:22]  ¹² tn Heb “this is the word which the Lord has spoken about him.”

[37:22]  ¹³ 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.

[37:22]  ¹⁴ sn Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.

[18:16]  ¹⁵ tn There may be a deliberate double meaning involved here. The word translated here “an object of horror” refers both to destruction (cf. 2:15; 4:17) and the horror or dismay that accompanies it (cf. 5:30; 8:21). The fact that there is no conjunction or preposition in front of the noun “hissing” that follows this suggests that the reaction is in view here, not the cause.

[18:16]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “an object of lasting hissing. All who pass that way will be appalled and shake their head.”

[27:39]  ¹⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.