Quotes about Derision
The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.
— Psalm 119:51
In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,
— Matthew 27:41
What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
— Job 34:7
All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
— Psalm 22:7
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
— Psalm 79:4
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
— Ezekiel 23:32
And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
— Job 30:9
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
— Lamentations 3:14
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
— Psalm 44:14
For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
— Jeremiah 20:8
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.
— John Piper
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
— Psalm 44:13