Bible Verses About Persecution

Don't let the floodwaters overwhelm me, don't let the deep swallow me up, don't let the pit close its mouth over me.

Answer me, ADONAI, for your grace is good; in your great mercy, turn to me.

Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; answer me quickly.

Come near to me, and redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies.

You know how I am insulted, shamed and disgraced; before you stand all my foes.

Insults have broken my heart to the point that I could die. I hoped that someone would show compassion, but nobody did; and that there would be comforters, but I found none.

They put poison in my food; in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

for persecuting someone you had already stricken, for adding to the pain of those you wounded.

They say, "God has abandoned him; go after him, and seize him, because no one will save him."

I have become the object of their taunts; when they see me, they shake their heads.

All your mitzvot [show your] faithfulness; they are hounding me with lies; help me!

(Shin) Princes persecute me for no reason, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

For an enemy is pursuing me; he has crushed my life into the ground and left me to live in darkness, like those who have been long dead.

Here is what ADONAI, the Redeemer of Isra'el, his Holy One, says to the one despised, whom the nations detest, to the servant of tyrants: "When kings see you, they will stand up; princes too will prostrate themselves, because of ADONAI, who is faithful, the Holy One of Isra'el, who has chosen you."

I offered my back to those who struck me, my cheeks to those who plucked out my beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting.

Just as many were appalled at him, because he was so disfigured that he didn't even seem human and simply no longer looked like a man,

For before him he grew up like a young plant, like a root out of dry ground. He was not well-formed or especially handsome; we saw him, but his appearance did not attract us.

People despised and avoided him, a man of pains, well acquainted with illness. Like someone from whom people turn their faces, he was despised; we did not value him.

In fact, it was our diseases he bore, our pains from which he suffered; yet we regarded him as punished, stricken and afflicted by God.

But he was wounded because of our crimes, crushed because of our sins; the disciplining that makes us whole fell on him, and by his bruises we are healed.

Though mistreated, he was submissive - he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb led to be slaughtered, like a sheep silent before its shearers, he did not open his mouth.

After forcible arrest and sentencing, he was taken away; and none of his generation protested his being cut off from the land of the living for the crimes of my people, who deserved the punishment themselves.

He was given a grave among the wicked; in his death he was with a rich man. Although he had done no violence and had said nothing deceptive,

yet it pleased ADONAI to crush him with illness, to see if he would present himself as a guilt offering. If he does, he will see his offspring; and he will prolong his days; and at his hand ADONAI's desire will be accomplished.

ADONAI, you know. Remember me, think of me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. Because you are patient, don't banish me; know that for your sake I suffer insults.