All who see me mock me;(A)
    they hurl insults,(B) shaking their heads.(C)

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All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

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Save me(A) from all my transgressions;(B)
    do not make me the scorn(C) of fools.

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Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

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13 You have made us a reproach(A) to our neighbors,(B)
    the scorn(C) and derision(D) of those around us.

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13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

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He will turn their own tongues against them(A)
    and bring them to ruin;
    all who see them will shake their heads(B) in scorn.(C)

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So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

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16 Their land will be an object of horror(A)
    and of lasting scorn;(B)
all who pass by will be appalled(C)
    and will shake their heads.(D)

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16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

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27 Was not Israel the object of your ridicule?(A)
    Was she caught among thieves,(B)
that you shake your head(C) in scorn(D)
    whenever you speak of her?

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27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

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16 You have observed the statutes of Omri(A)
    and all the practices of Ahab’s(B) house;
    you have followed their traditions.(C)
Therefore I will give you over to ruin(D)
    and your people to derision;
    you will bear the scorn(E) of the nations.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:16 Septuagint; Hebrew scorn due my people

16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

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