SARCASM

Passages on this topic · 46

• Genesis 4:9

  Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

• Exodus 14:11

  They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

• Numbers 11:20

  but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”

• Numbers 24:11

  Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.”

• Joshua 17:15

  Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

• Judges 9:7

  When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

• Judges 9:8

  The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

• Judges 9:9

  “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

• Judges 9:10

  “The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’

• Judges 9:11

  “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

• Judges 9:12

  “The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign over us.’

• Judges 9:13

  “The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

• Judges 9:14

  “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’

• Judges 9:15

  “The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

• Judges 9:16

  “Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands

• Judges 9:17

  (for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

• Judges 9:18

  and you have risen up against my father’s house today, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

• Judges 9:19

  if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;

• Judges 10:14

  Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”

• Judges 14:18

  The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”

• 1 Samuel 11:10

  Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.”

• 1 Samuel 17:28

  Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

• 2 Samuel 6:21

  David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.

• 1 Kings 18:27

  At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

• 1 Kings 20:11

  The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’”

• 2 Kings 14:9

  Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

• 2 Kings 14:10

  You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

• 2 Kings 18:23

  Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

• 2 Kings 18:24

  How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

• 2 Chronicles 25:18

  Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

• 2 Chronicles 25:19

  You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

• Nehemiah 4:2

  He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”

• Nehemiah 4:3

  Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

• Job 11:12

  An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

• Job 12:2

  “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

• Job 12:3

  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

• Proverbs 26:16

  The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

• Matthew 27:28

  They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.

• Matthew 27:29

  They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

• Luke 23:11

  Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

• John 19:2

  The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.

• John 19:3

  They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.

• John 19:5

  Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”

• John 19:15

  They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

• Acts 26:28

  Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

• 1 Timothy 4:7

  But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.