If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.
Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.
When the wicked thrive, rebellion increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.
When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?
…because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
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.
And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads