Quotes about Taunting

Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously.

From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.

And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”

For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.

in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,