Bible Verses About Despisement

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

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

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

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

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.