Psalms 69:10
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
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Genesis 37:19
They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
Genesis 37:20
Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”
Psalms 4:2
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Psalms 35:19
Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
Psalms 35:20
For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
Psalms 35:21
Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
Psalms 35:22
You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.
Psalms 35:23
Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
Psalms 35:24
Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.
Psalms 35:25
Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
Psalms 69:26
For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
Psalms 71:11
saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
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Leviticus 23:32
It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
Numbers 29:7
“ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;
Psalms 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
Psalms 126:5
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
Psalms 126:6
He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
Isaiah 57:15
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 57:18
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Isaiah 57:19
I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
Isaiah 58:4
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Isaiah 61:3
to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
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Numbers 6:13
“ ‘This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
Judges 13:5
for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
1 Samuel 1:11
She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”
Isaiah 53:1
Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?
Isaiah 53:2
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Amos 2:10
Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
Amos 2:11
I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?” says Yahweh.
Amos 2:12
“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’
Matthew 2:23
and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.
Matthew 26:71
When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”
John 1:45
Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
John 1:46
Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
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1 Samuel 4:17
He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”
1 Samuel 4:18
When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
1 Samuel 4:19
His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.
1 Samuel 4:20
About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.
1 Samuel 4:21
She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
1 Samuel 4:22
She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”
Ezra 10:1
Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
Psalms 102:13
You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
Psalms 102:14
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Zephaniah 3:18
I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.
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Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.
Psalms 22:19
But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help. Hurry to help me!
Psalms 22:21
Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.
Psalms 69:15
Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
Psalms 69:16
Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
Psalms 69:17
Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
Psalms 69:18
Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
Matthew 26:67
Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
Hebrews 13:13
Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
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Psalms 33:16
There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
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Psalms 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
Psalms 44:14
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Psalms 44:15
All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
Psalms 44:16
at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 55:3
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
Psalms 71:13
Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
Psalms 89:51
With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
Psalms 109:29
Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
Jeremiah 3:25
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”
Jeremiah 14:3
Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.
Jeremiah 51:51
“We are confounded because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
Ezekiel 7:18
They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
Micah 7:10
Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is Yahweh your God?” My eyes will see her. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
Zephaniah 2:8
I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.
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1 Samuel 31:13
They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
2 Samuel 1:12
They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
2 Samuel 22:16
Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
1 Kings 21:27
When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about despondently.
Psalms 35:14
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
Isaiah 22:12
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
Daniel 10:3
I ate no pleasant food. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Matthew 4:2
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
Matthew 6:16
“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 11:18
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
Luke 2:37
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
John 11:35
Jesus wept.
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2 Samuel 6:22
I will be yet more undignified than this, and will be worthless in my own sight. But the maids of whom you have spoken will honor me.”
Psalms 22:2
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
Psalms 22:24
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
Psalms 69:1
Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
Psalms 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Isaiah 49:7
Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
Mark 14:65
Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
Luke 7:34
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
Luke 22:63
The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
Hebrews 5:7
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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Jeremiah 23:10
“For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;
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Job 17:6
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
Psalms 35:16
Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Psalms 38:19
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
Psalms 38:20
They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
Psalms 109:4
In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
Lamentations 3:14
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
Luke 23:35
The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
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1 Kings 12:11
Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’ ”
2 Chronicles 10:11
Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’ ”
Psalms 3:5
I laid myself down and slept. I awakened, for Yahweh sustains me.
Psalms 6:8
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vindication! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
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Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
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Job 16:9
He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
Psalms 9:3
When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
Psalms 9:13
Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,
Psalms 18:17
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
Psalms 18:40
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Psalms 18:41
They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
Psalms 25:19
Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms 118:7
Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
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2 Samuel 12:21
Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”
Job 30:25
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
Matthew 6:17
But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
Matthew 9:14
Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
Acts 9:9
He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
Acts 10:30
Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing
Acts 13:2
As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 13:3
Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Acts 14:14
But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes and sprang into the multitude, crying out,
2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
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Acts 24:5
For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
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