Scorning and Mocking: Punishment For

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—

You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. …