Bible Verses About Persecution: Of Jesus

I will put animosity between you and the woman, and between your descendant and her descendant; he will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Why are the nations in an uproar, the peoples grumbling in vain?

The earth's kings are taking positions, leaders conspiring together, against ADONAI and his anointed.

They cry, "Let's break their fetters! Let's throw off their chains!"

He who sits in heaven laughs; Adonai looks at them in derision.

Then in his anger he rebukes them, terrifies them in his fury.

For the leader. Set to "Sunrise."A psalm of David: My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me? Why so far from helping me, so far from my anguished cries?

My God, by day I call to you, but you don't answer; likewise at night, but I get no relief.

But I am a worm, not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.

All who see me jeer at me; they sneer and shake their heads:

"He committed himself to ADONAI, so let him rescue him! Let him set him free if he takes such delight in him!"

Don't stay far from me, for trouble is near; and there is no one to help.

Many bulls surround me, wild bulls of Bashan close in on me.

They open their mouths wide against me, like ravening, roaring lions.

I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint; my heart has become like wax it melts inside me;

my mouth is as dry as a fragment of a pot, my tongue sticks to my palate; you lay me down in the dust of death.

Dogs are all around me, a pack of villains closes in on me like a lion [at] my hands and feet.

I can count every one of my bones, while they gaze at me and gloat.

They divide my garments among themselves; for my clothing they throw dice.

But you, ADONAI, don't stay far away! My strength, come quickly to help me!

Rescue me from the sword, Or: "They pierced my hands and feet." See Introduction, Section VIII, paragraph 6, and Section XIV, footnote 70. my life from the power of the dogs.

Save me from the lion's mouth! You have answered me from the wild bulls' horns.

For the leader. Set to "Lilies." By David: Save me, God! For the water threatens my life.

I am sinking down in the mud, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep water; the flood is sweeping over me.

I am exhausted from crying, my throat is dry and sore, my eyes are worn out with looking for my God.