Psalms 129:3

Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.

You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”

I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.

They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.

“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, the treacherous for the upright.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”

You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’

“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go.

“ ‘ “When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’

Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”

Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,

But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.

So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?”

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.”

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.

But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”

Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!