Psalms 35:15

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

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.

Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;

“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.”

“Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

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

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;