Lexicon :: Strong's H2778 - ḥārap̄

‘Now if a man has intimate relations with a woman who is a slave acquired for [marriage to] another man, but who has not been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment [after an investigation]; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free;

“But Zebulun was a people who risked their lives to the [point of] death;

Naphtali also, on the heights of the field.

‘Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?

Against whom have you raised your voice,

And haughtily lifted up your eyes?

Against the Holy One of Israel!

“I hold fast my uprightness and my right standing with God and I will not let them go;

My heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,

While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”

Because of the voice of the taunter and reviler,

Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

For it is not an enemy who taunts me—

Then I could bear it;

Nor is it one who has hated me who insolently exalts himself against me—

Then I could hide from him.

He will send from heaven and save me;

He calls to account him who tramples me down. Selah.

God will send out His lovingkindness and His truth.

For zeal for Your house has consumed me,

And the [mocking] insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

O God, how long will the adversary scoff?

Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

Remember this, O LORD, the enemy has scoffed,

And a foolish and impious people has spurned Your name.

And return into the lap of our neighbors sevenfold

The taunts with which they have taunted You, O Lord.

With which Your enemies have taunted, O LORD,

With which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed.

My enemies taunt me all day long;

Those who ridicule me use my name as a curse.

So I will have an answer for the one who taunts me,

For I trust [completely] in Your word [and its reliability].

He who oppresses the poor taunts and insults his Maker,

But he who is kind and merciful and gracious to the needy honors Him.

Whoever mocks the poor taunts his Maker,

And he who rejoices at [another’s] disaster will not go unpunished.

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad,

That I may reply to him who reproaches (reprimands, criticizes) me.

They (warriors) will be left together for the mountain birds of prey,

And for the beasts of the earth;

And the birds of prey will [spend the] summer feeding on them,

And all the beasts of the earth will spend harvest time on them.

“Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?

And against whom have you raised your voice

And haughtily lifted up your eyes?

Against the Holy One of Israel!

Both your own wickedness and the wickedness of your fathers,” says the LORD.

“Since they too have made offerings with incense on the mountains

And scorned and taunted Me on the hills,

I therefore will measure [punishment for] their former work [directly] into their [fn]arms.”

“I have heard the taunting of Moab

And the revilings of the sons of Ammon,

With which they have taunted My people

And become arrogant against their territory [by violating Israel’s boundary and trying to seize its land].

This they shall have in return for their pride, because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the LORD of hosts.