Psalms 69:7

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

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

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

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

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

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

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.”

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

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

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

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

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

They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’ ”

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.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

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

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”

Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

As the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.

You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

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.

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

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

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch.”

Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”

They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

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.”

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

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.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

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

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

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

Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”

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.

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

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

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’?”

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and kissed him.

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

He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

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.

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

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

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

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.