Psalms 88:3

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.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

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

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

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.

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

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.”

When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

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 says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,

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

Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”

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,

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 said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

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

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

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

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,

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.

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

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.

Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

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.

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

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.

She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.

he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” They were ridiculing him.

They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

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

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

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

Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.