Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold; so my own arm brought me salvation, and my wrath upheld me.
Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul.
“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
And they all left him and fled.
But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?
And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”
Our soul has had more than enough of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud.
As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
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