Jer.20.7

Jeremiah 20:7

KJV

¶ O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

Jeremiah’s Complaint

Cross References

Job 12:4

KJV

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

Job Presents His Case

Job Chides His Accusers

Psalm 22:7

KJV Jesus

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

The Psalm of the Cross

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David.

Psalm 119:51

KJV

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

ז - ZAYIN

Jeremiah 15:10

KJV

¶ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Jeremiah’s Woe

Jeremiah 38:19

KJV

And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.

Jeremiah Cast into the Cistern

Interview with Zedekiah

Lamentations 3:14

KJV

I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

The Prophet’s Afflictions

Ezekiel 3:14

KJV Holy Spirit

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

Ezekiel Eats the Scroll

Jonah 4:2

KJV

And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.