Psalm 69:12

A Plea For Rescue

¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. ¹² Those who sit in the gate talk about me,
And I am the song of the drunkards.
¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.

Be Strong

City Gate

Genesis 19:1

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth

Deuteronomy 16:18

"You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Job 30:8-9

A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

Psalm 35:15-16

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;

Daniel 5:2-4

Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

Daniel 5:23

but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.

Matthew 27:12-13

But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer.

Matthew 27:20

Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

Matthew 27:41-42

So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying,

Matthew 27:62-63

The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate

Mark 15:17-19

And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

Luke 23:2

And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."

Acts 4:26-27

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed'--