Bible Verses About Reviling and Reproaching

For they sayd one to another, Behold, this dreamer commeth.

Thou shalt not raile vpon the Iudges, neither speake euil of the ruler of thy people.

And the Philistim sayde vnto Dauid, Am I a dog, that thou commest to me with staues? And the Philistim cursed Dauid by his gods.

The Dauid returned to blesse his house, and Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meete Dauid, and sayde, O howe glorious was the King of Israel this day, which was vncouered to day in the eyes of the maidens of his seruantes, as a foole vncouereth himselfe.

And thus sayde Shimei when hee cursed, Come forth, come foorth thou murtherer, and wicked man.

The Lord hath brought vpon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned: and the Lord hath deliuered thy kingdome into the hand of Absalom thy sonne: and beholde, thou art taken in thy wickednesse, because thou art a murtherer.

If so be the Lord thy God hath heard all the wordes of Rabshakeh, whome the King of Asshur his master hath sent to raile on the liuing God, and to reproch him with wordes which the Lord thy God hath heard, then lift thou vp thy prayer for the remnant that are left.

Lord, bow downe thine eare, and heare: Lord open thine eyes and behold, and heare the wordes of Saneherib, who hath sent to blaspheme the liuing God.

My bones are cut asunder, while mine enemies reproch me, saying dayly vnto me, Where is thy God?

Why art thou cast downe, my soule? and why art thou disquieted within mee? waite on God: for I wil yet giue him thankes: he is my present helpe, and my God.

For the voyce of the slaunderer and rebuker, for the enemie and auenger.

He will send from heauen, and saue me from the reproofe of him that would swallowe me. Selah. God wil send his mercy, and his trueth.

For thy sake haue I suffred reproofe: shame hath couered my face.

For the zeale of thine house hath eaten mee, and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen vpon me.

Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.

Arise, O God: mainteine thine owne cause: remember thy dayly reproche by the foolish man.

And render to our neighbours seuen folde into their bosome their reproche, wherewith they haue reproched thee, O Lord.

Remember, O Lord, the rebuke of thy seruants, which I beare in my bosome of all the mightie people.

For thine enemies haue reproched thee, O Lord, because they haue reproched the footesteps of thine Anointed.

Mine enemies reuile me dayly, and they that rage against me, haue sworne against me.

So shall I make answere vnto my blasphemers: for I trust in thy woorde.

He that oppresseth the poore, reprooueth him that made him: but hee honoureth him, that hath mercie on the poore.

Encline thine eare, O Lord, and heare: open thine eyes, O Lord, and see, and heare all the wordes of Saneherib, who hath sent to blaspheme the liuing God.

Whome hast thou railed on and blasphemed? and against whome hast thou exalted thy voyce, and lifted vp thine eyes on hie? euen against the holy one of Israel.

By thy seruants hast thou railed on the Lord, and sayd, By the multitude of my charets I am come vp to the top of the mountaines to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut downe the hie cedars thereof, and the faire firre trees thereof, and I will goe vp to the heightes of his top and to the forest of his fruitfull places.