KJV King James Version
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
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Psalm 22:7
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
WEB World English Bible
All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
ASV American Standard Version
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip—shake the head,
Surrounding context — Psalm 22
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
8 He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother’s belly.
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Mark 15:29And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest [it] in three days,Matthew 27:39-40And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,Psalm 109:25I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads.Luke 23:11And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked [him], and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.Matthew 27:29And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put [it] upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!Mark 15:20And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.Matthew 26:66-68What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.Isaiah 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.Psalm 44:14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.Psalm 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.Job 30:9-11And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.Isaiah 57:4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,Luke 23:35-39And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided [him], saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.Job 16:10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.Psalm 35:15-16But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:Job 16:4I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.Luke 16:14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.Matthew 9:24He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
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