Quotes about Defiance
He also wrote letters mocking the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying against Him: “Just as the gods of the nations did not deliver their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.”
— 2 Chronicles 32:17
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
— Nehemiah 2:19
Day after day they warned him, but he would not comply. So they reported it to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.
— Esther 3:4
When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage.
— Esther 3:5
Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
— Job 10:16
For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,
— Job 15:25
They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
— Job 16:10
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
— Job 21:14
It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
— Job 27:23
A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
— Job 41:29
“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
— Psalm 2:3
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
— Psalm 73:9