Psalms 88:8–9

¹¹I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

⁷Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

¹⁰They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

³I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

²For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

¹³He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

¹⁴My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

¹⁶I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

¹⁷My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

¹⁸Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

¹⁹All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

²³He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

²⁴If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

⁷He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

⁸Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

⁹He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

⁸Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

¹⁸And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

¹⁹¶ Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?

²⁰Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.

¹⁴Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

⁸He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

⁵⁷Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.

²¹The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.

²²Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.

²³And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

²⁴¶ When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

²⁵Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

⁴I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

⁴Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

¹⁸Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

¹³If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

¹⁰My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

³Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.

⁶I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

³My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

¹¹¶ Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

²⁰My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

⁷Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

³⁵Jesus wept.

⁴⁸Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁴⁹Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

¹⁷Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

⁷Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

³¹Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

¹O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: