Psalms 69:8

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

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.

“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.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

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

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

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

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.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

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.

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

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

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

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.

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.

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

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

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.

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

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

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.’

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!”

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

There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

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

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.

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

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

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

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

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

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

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

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.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

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.”

“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand;’

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.

In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

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

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’ ”

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

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

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?

I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”

They all left him, and fled.

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

The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

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

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,

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

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.

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

For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.