Mocking

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

He also wrote letters mocking the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying against Him: “Just as the gods of the nations did not deliver their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.”

Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,

This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.

Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.