So Sarai, Abram's wife, having taken Hagar the Egyptian her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, gave her to Abram her husband as a wife to him.

Then Sarai said to Abram, I am injured by you; I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonored before her. The Lord judge between me and you.

And concerning Ishmael, behold, I have heard you, and behold, I have blessed him, and will increase him and multiply him exceedingly; twelve nations shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Hagar.

And Hagar bore a son to Abram; and Abram called the name of his son which Hagar bore to him, Ishmael.

And he went up there to Bethel. And as he was going up by the road, there came up also little children from the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, baldhead, go up.

And he turned after them, and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And behold, there came out two bears out of the woods, and they mauled forty-two children among them.

So the posts went through from city to city in Mount Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun; and they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

Nevertheless they sneered at His messengers, and despised His words, and mocked His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose up against His people, till there was no remedy.

Now it came to pass, when Sanaballat heard that we were building the wall, that it was grievous to him, and he was very angry, and railed against the Jews.

And Tobiah the Ammonite came near to him, and said to them, Do they sacrifice or eat in their place? Shall not a fox go up and pull down their wall of stones?

and do not cover [their] iniquity.

But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn; now they reprove me in their turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy [to be with] my shepherd dogs.

But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and the scorn of the people.

While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God?

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

You have made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.

A youth [when in company] with a godly man, will be restrained in his devices, and then his way will be straight.

ZAIN. Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and her rejection. [She thought on] all her desirable things which were from the days of old, when her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, and there was none to help her; when her enemies saw it, they laughed at her habitation.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by the servant girl, the other by a freewoman.

But just as then the [one] who was born according to the flesh persecuted the [one born] according to the Spirit, so it is also now.

Still others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and of prison.