Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.

The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,

The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them.

If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.

But you, O Lord, laugh in disgust at them; you taunt all the nations.

You have made our neighbors dislike us, and our enemies insult us.

so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,

The one who mocks the poor insults his Creator; whoever rejoices over disaster will not go unpunished.

All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother – the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me.

This is what the Lord says about him: “The virgin daughter Zion despises you, she makes fun of you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head after you.

The messengers journeyed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but people mocked and ridiculed them.

(3:33) Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall he became angry and was quite upset. He derided the Jews,

You will no longer see a defiant people whose language you do not comprehend, whose derisive speech you do not understand.

this is what the Lord says about him: “The virgin daughter Zion despises you – she makes fun of you; daughter Jerusalem shakes her head after you.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: “You will drink your sister’s deep and wide cup; you will be scorned and derided, for it holds a great deal.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”