Jeremiah 20:7

New American Bible - revised edition

You seduced me, Lord, and I let myself be seduced; you were too strong for me, and you prevailed. All day long I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me.

Cross References

2 Kings 2:23

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. While he was on the way, some little boys came out of the city and jeered at him: “Go away, baldy; go away, baldy!”

Job 12:4

I have become the sport of my neighbors: “The one whom God answers when he calls upon him, The just, the perfect man,” is a laughingstock;

Job 30:9

Yet now they sing of me in mockery; I have become a byword among them.

Psalm 119:51

Though the arrogant utterly scorn me, I do not turn from your law.

Isaiah 8:11

For thus said the Lord—his hand strong upon me—warning me not to walk in the way of this people:

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you gave me birth! a man of strife and contention to all the land! I neither borrow nor lend, yet everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain continuous, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? To me you are like a deceptive brook, waters that cannot be relied on!

Jeremiah 17:16

Yet I did not press you to send disaster; the day without remedy I have not desired. You know what passed my lips; it is present before you.

Jeremiah 20:9

I say I will not mention him, I will no longer speak in his name. But then it is as if fire is burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding back, I cannot!

Jeremiah 29:26

“It is the Lord who has appointed you priest in place of the priest Jehoiada, to provide officers for the house of the Lord, that you may confine in stocks or pillory any madman who poses as a prophet.

Jeremiah 38:19

King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judahites who have deserted to the Chaldeans; I could be handed over to them, and they will mistreat me.”

Lamentations 3:14

I have become a laughingstock to all my people, their taunt all day long;

Ezekiel 3:14

And the spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went off, my spirit angry and bitter, for the hand of the Lord pressed hard on me.

Hosea 9:7

They have come, the days of punishment! they have come, the days of recompense! Let Israel know it! “The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!” Because your iniquity is great, great, too, is your hostility.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord, “O Lord, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I fled at first toward Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in kindness, repenting of punishment.

Micah 3:8

But as for me, I am filled with power, with the spirit of the Lord, with justice and with might; To declare to Jacob his crimes and to Israel his sins.

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all these things and sneered at him.

Luke 23:11

[Even] Herod and his soldiers treated him contemptuously and mocked him, and after clothing him in resplendent garb, he sent him back to Pilate.

Acts 17:18

Even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers engaged him in discussion. Some asked, “What is this scavenger trying to say?” Others said, “He sounds like a promoter of foreign deities,” because he was preaching about ‘Jesus’ and ‘Resurrection.’

Acts 17:32

When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We should like to hear you on this some other time.”

1 Corinthians 9:6

Or is it only myself and Barnabas who do not have the right not to work?

Hebrews 11:36

Others endured mockery, scourging, even chains and imprisonment.