Lexicon :: Strong's H959 - bāzâ

Then, as the ark of the LORD came into the City of David, [fn]Michal, Saul’s daughter [David’s wife], looked down from the window above and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she felt contempt for him in her heart [because she thought him undignified].

‘The virgin daughter of Zion

Has despised you and mocked you;

The daughter of Jerusalem

Has shaken her head behind you!

It happened that as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the City of David, Michal [David’s wife] the daughter of Saul, looking down through a window, saw King David leaping and dancing [in celebration]; and [fn]she despised him in her heart.

In his eyes an evil person is despised,

But he honors those who fear the LORD [and obediently worship Him with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder].

He keeps his word even to his own disadvantage and does not change it [for his own benefit];

But I am [treated as] a worm [insignificant and powerless] and not a man;

I am the scorn of men and despised by the people.

For He has not despised nor detested the suffering of the afflicted;

Nor has He hidden His face from him;

But when he cried to Him for help, He listened.

My [only] sacrifice [acceptable] to God is a broken spirit;

A broken and contrite heart [broken with sorrow for sin, thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.

For the LORD hears the needy

And does not despise His who are prisoners.

Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens,

O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.

He has regarded the prayer of the destitute,

And has not despised their prayer.

I am small and despised,

But I do not forget Your precepts.

He who walks in uprightness [reverently] fears the LORD [and obeys and worships Him with profound respect],

But he who is devious in his ways despises Him.

A wise son makes a father glad,

But a foolish man despises his mother.

He who keeps and obeys the commandment [of the LORD] keeps (guards) his own life,

But he who is careless of his ways and conduct will die.

“She has shown contempt for you and mocked you,

The Virgin Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem);

She has shaken her head behind you,

The Daughter of Jerusalem!

He was despised and rejected by men,

A Man of sorrows and pain and acquainted with grief;

And like One from whom men hide their faces

He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or esteem Him.

“Is this man [King] Coniah a despised, broken jar?

Is he a vessel in which no one takes pleasure?

Why are he and his [royal] descendants hurled out

And cast into a land which they do not know or understand?

“For behold, [Edom] I have made you small among the nations

And despised among men.

“Behold [Edom], I shall [humiliate you and] make you small among the nations;

You are greatly despised.

“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a Father, where is My honor? And if I am a Master, where is the [reverent] fear and respect due Me?’ says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise My name. But you say, ‘How and in what way have we despised Your name?’