Bible Verses About Reviling and Reproaching

“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.

You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

“Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

As soon as David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”

And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!

The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.

For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.

Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.

Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.