la.ag denotes mocking scorn directed at a person, people, city, or object of public contempt.

The attested noun denotes mocking contempt directed toward its target: Job is pictured as drinking it, the faithful are filled with it from the secure and proud, and peoples or cities become its objects before surrounding nations. The same use also describes a disgrace associated with Egypt and with the cup in Ezekiel's oracle.

1. Mocking contempt directed at a target · dominant

   The masculine singular noun occurs where persons or communities are subjected to public scorn: in Job 34:7 the APB renders Job as drinking “derision like water,” while Psalm 123:4 depicts the soul filled with the derision of the secure. In Ezekiel 23:32 the cup becomes an object of laughter and much derision; Ezekiel 36:4 describes forsaken cities as plunder and derision among surrounding nations. Psalm 44:14 and Psalm 79:4 likewise portray a people exposed to contempt, reproach, and scorn.

   Job 34:7Psalm 123:4Ezekiel 23:32Ezekiel 36:4Psalm 44:14Psalm 79:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “derision” in Ezekiel 23:32, Ezekiel 36:4, Job 34:7, Psalm 123:4, and Hosea 7:16; it presents related scenes with “shaking of the head,” “reproach,” and “scorn” in Psalm 44:14 and Psalm 79:4. Those variations describe the verses' presentation rather than separate lexical meanings.