12 Bible Verses about Abuse, To God's People
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They mocked God's messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.
Yet, I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned by humanity and despised by people. All who see me laugh at me. Insults pour from their mouths. They shake their heads and say: Put yourself in Jehovah's hands. Let Jehovah save him! Let God rescue him since he is pleased with him!
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face. I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children. Zeal for your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.read more.
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
Have mercy on us, O Jehovah, be gracious to us, for we are greatly filled with contempt.
O Jehovah, You have deceived me. I was deceived! You have overcome me and prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews. And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said: What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they make themselves strong? Will they make offerings? Will they get the work done in a day? Will they make the stones that have been burned come again out of the dust? Now Tobiah the Ammonite was with him, and he said: Such is their building that if a fox climbs to the top of it, their stonewall will be broken down.read more.
Give ear, O our God, for we are ridiculed. Let their words of shame be turned back upon them, and let them be given up to plunder in a land where they are prisoners.
They think it strange that you do not run with them in wild and reckless living and they speak evil about you.
Blessed are you when men revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.
Some mocked when they heard about the resurrection of the dead. Yet others said: We will hear you again concerning this.
When they opposed Paul and treated him abusively he shook out his garment and said to them: Your blood is upon your own heads. I am clean. From now on I will go to the people of the nations.
I know your troubles. I know that you are poor, but you are rich! I know the evil things said against you by those who claim to be Jews but are not. Their synagogue belongs to Satan!
