Psalms 54:3

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

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.

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.”

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.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

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.

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

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

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

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

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.

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

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

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

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.

Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

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.

The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.

He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

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.”

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

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”

He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

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.

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

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

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

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

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

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

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

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

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.

At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.

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

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.