Psalms 31:11

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

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

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

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

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

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

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.

Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

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

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

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

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

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.

“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

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.’

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 will be scattered.’

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

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”

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.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

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

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

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

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

They all left him, and fled.

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

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

Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.