Insults

I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.

…because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.

Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.

O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.

Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.

For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”

That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.