how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
Parallel translations
- WEB With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
- KJV Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
- NKJV With which Your enemies have reproached, O Lord, With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.
- NASB With which Your enemies have taunted, Lord, With which they have taunted the footsteps of Your anointed.
- NLT Your enemies have mocked me, O Lord; they mock your anointed king wherever he goes.
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Quick answer
The enemies mock God's anointed king, taunting his every step.
Overview
The reproach centers on God's "anointed one," whose downfall the enemies ridicule at every turn. To mock the anointed is to mock the God who appointed him. This mockery of the anointed prefigures the scorn poured on Christ, the true Messiah, at His passion (Matt. 27:39-43).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 74:10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
- 1 Pet 4:14–16If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
- Heb 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
- Ps 56:5–6All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
- Matt 5:10–12Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Heb 10:33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.
- Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”
- 2 Sam 16:7–8And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!
- Ps 57:3He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
- Acts 5:41The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.
- 1 Pet 3:16keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.
- 1 Pet 2:20–21How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.
- Matt 26:61and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
- 1 Cor 4:12–13We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
- John 8:48The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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