Löydetty 17 Tulokset: Mockery

• When word came to Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the Slave, that was of Ammon’s breed, and Gosem the Arabian, all was mockery and disdain; Here are fine doings! they said. Are you for rebelling against the king’s majesty? (Nehemiah 2, 19)

• Mark it well, Lord God, how they turn us into a laughing-stock; on their own heads let the mockery recoil; exile and ignominy be their own lot! (Nehemiah 4, 4)

• But nothing could they get from him but mockery and contempt; he did despite to their sacred persons, and sent them away with threats. (1 Maccabees 7, 34)

• Alas for the wise man that goes to law with a fool! Between bluster and mockery, there is no end to it.✻ (Proverbs 29, 9)

• A mockery, now, seemed those magic arts of theirs; ignominious the rebuff to their boasted cunning. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 7)

• For the proud, mockery and shame! Vengeance, like a lion, couches in wait for them. (Ecclesiasticus 27, 31)

• Tainted is every sacrifice that comes of goods ill gotten; a mockery, this, of sacrifice, that shall win no favour. (Ecclesiasticus 34, 21)

• Fruitless errand to a folk that could not save them; no help, no comfort there, only failure and mockery. (Isaiah 30, 5)

• Long have I prophesied, and still I clamoured against men’s wickedness, and still cried ruin; day in, day out, nothing it earns me, this divine spokesmanship, but reproach and mockery. (Jeremiah 20, 8)

• deep thy cup shall be as hers, wide as hers; full of mockery and reproach, so much it holds, (Ezekiel 23, 32)

• Yet here is word for you, mountains of Israel, from the Lord God; word from him for crag and hill, ravine and valley and barren upland, ruined wall and deserted city, empty now and a mockery to their neighbours! (Ezekiel 36, 4)

• And this was the proud city that dwelt so free from alarms, thinking to herself, Here I stand, with no rival; a desert now, lair of the wild beasts! Hisses the passer-by in mockery, and shakes his fist. (Zephaniah 2, 15)