Psalms 102:7

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things.

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

They all left him, and fled.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint;’

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

“You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day