And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

And Sarai said unto Abram, The wrong done to me be upon you: I have given my maid into your bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and you.

And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

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

And Hagar bore Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bore, Ishmael.

And he went up from there unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth youths out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, you bald head; go up, you bald head.

And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two of the youths.

So the runners passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we built the wall, he was angry, and felt great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox goes up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.

But now they that are younger than I hold me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

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

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.

Even a child is known by his acts, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman.

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: