and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.”
lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah
But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.”
“He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”
“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
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?”
All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me. They say, “A deadly thing is poured out on him; he will not rise again from where he lies.”
For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand? Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
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