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Psalm 89:51

With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

49Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
51With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
52Blessed be the LORD forever more. Amen, and Amen.
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Notice

The repeated word “mocked” makes the contempt hard to pass over: enemies ridicule God’s anointed one, and the prayer brings that humiliation before YHWH.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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1 Peter 4:14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your …Both passages describe insults directed at someone associated with God: his anointed one in the psalm, and those bearing Christ’s name in Peter.
Numbers 15:30“‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That soul shall be cut off from among his …Both texts connect contempt with opposition to the LORD, through mockery in the psalm and high-handed wrongdoing in Numbers.
Psalm 89:38But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.Both verses name God’s anointed one, with verse 38 lamenting God’s rejection and verse 51 describing the enemies’ mockery.
Psalm 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?Both prayers address God about hostile speech from enemies, naming mockery of his anointed one and blasphemy against his name.
Psalm 102:8My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.Enemies use words to humiliate in both psalms, mocking the anointed one’s footsteps and using the sufferer’s name as a curse.
Joel 2:17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, LORD, and don’t give your heritage to …Both passages bring public reproach before the LORD, with enemies mocking his anointed one and peoples questioning the presence of Israel’s God.
Psalm 44:13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.Both psalms lament ridicule, directed at God’s anointed one in Psalm 89 and at the people among their neighbors in Psalm 44.
1 Corinthians 4:12–13We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.Both passages describe hostile speech; the psalm reports mockery to the LORD, while Paul describes blessing those who curse.
2 Samuel 16:7–8Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!Both passages record verbal abuse, with enemies mocking in the psalm and Shimei cursing and accusing in Samuel.
1 Peter 2:20–21For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.Both passages describe suffering; Peter distinguishes suffering for doing well from punishment for sin, a distinction this verse does not make.
Hebrews 10:33partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.Both passages describe humiliation inflicted by others, with mockery in the psalm and exposure to reproaches and oppressions in Hebrews.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. feeling distant from God. doubt.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray Psalm 89:50–51 for someone facing mockery

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Encouragement

The prayer names the mockery without reporting its end. If ridicule has touched your faith, there is room to speak of it before YHWH while it remains unresolved.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).