Quotes About Contempt

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëBecause you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,

For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.í

And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.í”

Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ëThey are desolate; they are given to us to devour!í

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt.

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahabís house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”

I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.

By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ëHow have we defiled You?í By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

“But you profane it when you say, ëThe table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.í

To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable: