Jeremiah 20:7

God's Word

O Lord, you have deceived me, and I was deceived. You overpowered me and won. I’ve been made fun of all day long. Everyone mocks me.

Cross References

2 Kings 2:23

From there he went to Bethel. As he walked along the road, some boys came out of the city and mocked him. They said, “Go away, baldy! Go away!”

Job 12:4

I am a laughingstock to my neighbors. I am one who calls on God and expects an answer. A man of integrity, a man who is righteous, has become a laughingstock.

Job 30:9

“And now they make fun of me with songs. I have become a joke to them.

Psalm 119:51

Arrogant people have mocked me with cruelty, yet I have not turned away from your teachings.

Isaiah 8:11

This is what the Lord said with his powerful hand on me. He warned me not to follow the ways of these people:

Jeremiah 15:10

I’m so miserable! Why did my mother give birth to me? I am a man who argues and quarrels with the whole earth. I have never lent or borrowed anything. Yet, everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain unending and my wound incurable, refusing to heal? Will you disappoint me like a stream that dries up in summertime?

Jeremiah 17:16

I have not run away from being your shepherd, and I have not longed for the day of destruction. You know what came out of my mouth.

Jeremiah 20:9

I think to myself, “I can forget the Lord and no longer speak his name.” But ⌞his word⌟ is inside me like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I wear myself out holding it in, but I can’t do it any longer.

Jeremiah 29:26

The Lord made you priest instead of Jehoiada so that there would be officials for the Lord’s temple. You should put any lunatic who acts like a prophet in prison and in shackles.

Jeremiah 38:19

King Zedekiah answered Jeremiah, “I’m afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Babylonians. The Babylonians may hand me over to them, and they will torture me.”

Lamentations 3:14

I have become a laughingstock to all my people. All day long ⌞they make fun of me⌟ with their songs.

Ezekiel 3:14

Then the Spirit lifted me and took me away. I went away feeling bitter and angry. The strong power of the Lord came over me.

Hosea 9:7

The time for them to be punished will come. The time for them to pay for their sins will come. ⌞When this happens,⌟ Israel will know it. ⌞They think that⌟ prophets are fools and that spiritual people are crazy. They have sinned a lot, and they are very hostile.

Jonah 4:2

So he prayed to the Lord, “Lord, isn’t this what I said would happen when I was still in my own country? That’s why I tried to run to Tarshish in the first place. I knew that you are a merciful and compassionate God, patient, and always ready to forgive and to reconsider your threats of destruction.

Micah 3:8

But I am filled with the power of the Lord’s Spirit, with justice, and with strength. So I will tell ⌞the descendants of⌟ Jacob about their crimes and ⌞the nation of⌟ Israel about its sins.

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who love money, heard all this and were making sarcastic remarks about him.

Luke 23:11

Herod and his soldiers treated Jesus with contempt and made fun of him. They put a colorful robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.

Acts 17:18

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers had discussions with him. Some asked, “What is this babbling fool trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be speaking about foreign gods.” The philosophers said these things because Paul was telling the Good News about Jesus and saying that people would come back to life.

Acts 17:32

When the people of the court heard that a person had come back to life, some began joking about it, while others said, “We’ll hear you talk about this some other time.”

1 Corinthians 9:6

Or is it only Barnabas and I who don’t have any rights, except to find work to support ourselves?

Hebrews 11:36

Some were made fun of and whipped, and some were chained and put in prison.