לָעַג

This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but the people scorned and mocked them.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews

When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

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

The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.

All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.

You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

…in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

…this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.