Bible Verses About Reviling and Reproaching

They said one to another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

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

Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!

The LORD has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned! the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”

It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

Incline your ear, LORD, and hear. Open your eyes, LORD, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent to defy the living God.

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Turn your ear, LORD, and hear. Open your eyes, LORD, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.