Spitting

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

• Cruelty

Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

• Security
• Self-delusion
• Self-delusion

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.

And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.