Jeremiah 20:8 - Revised Standard Version

⁸ For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For whenever I speak, I must cry out and complain; I shout, Violence and destruction! For the word of the Lord has become to me a reproach and a derision and has brought me insult all day long.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.

Common English Bible

⁸ Every time I open my mouth, I cry out and say, “Violence and destruction!” The LORD’s word has brought me nothing but insult and injury, constantly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For I speak now as I have long spoken: crying out against iniquity and proclaiming devastation. And the word of the Lord has been made into a reproach against me and a derision, all day long.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ For I am speaking now this long time, crying out against iniquity and I often proclaim devistation: and the word of the Lord is made a reproach to me and a derision, all the day.

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2 Kings 2:23

He went up from there to Bethel; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”

2 Chronicles 36:16

but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, till the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Isaiah 57:4

Of whom are you making sport? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and put out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Jeremiah 15:15

O Lord, thou knowest; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In thy forbearance take me not away; know that for thy sake I bear reproach.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you do not listen to me, to keep the sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.’ ”

Jeremiah 20:7

O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; every one mocks me.

Jeremiah 28:8

The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms.

Jeremiah 5:1

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth; that I may pardon her.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities, every one who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it.

Jeremiah 7:9

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,

Habakkuk 1:3

Why dost thou make me see wrongs and look upon trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

Luke 11:45

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you reproach us also.”

Hebrews 11:26

He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked to the reward.

Hebrews 13:13

Therefore let us go forth to him outside the camp, and bear the abuse he endured.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.