Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

General references

Bible References

Reproach

Psalm 42:10

As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,
While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 123:4

Our soul is greatly filled
With the scoffing of those who are at ease,
And with the contempt of the proud [who disregard God’s law].
Hebrews 11:36
and others experienced the trial of mocking and scourging [amid torture], and even chains and imprisonment.

I am

Psalm 42:6

O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear];
Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Matthew 26:37
And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee [James and John], He began to be grieved and greatly distressed.
John 12:27
“Now My soul is troubled and deeply distressed; what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour [of trial and agony]’? But it is for this [very] purpose that I have come to this hour [this time and place].

But there

Psalm 142:4

Look to the right [the point of attack] and see;
For there is no one who has regard for me [to act in my favor].
Escape has failed me and I have nowhere to run;
No one cares about my life.
John 16:32
Take careful notice: an hour is coming, and has arrived, when you will all be scattered, each to his own home, leaving Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
2 Timothy 4:16
At my first trial no one supported me [as an advocate] or stood with me, but they all deserted me. May it not be counted against them [by God].

Comforters

Job 16:2

“I have heard many such things;
Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all.
Job 19:21

“Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has touched me.
Matthew 26:56
But all this has taken place so that the Scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

General references

Psalm 89:50

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants [scorned, insulted, and disgraced];
How I bear in my heart the reproach of all the many peoples,
Proverbs 18:3

When the wicked man comes [to the depth of evil], contempt [of all that is pure and good] also comes,
And with inner baseness (dishonor) comes outer shame (scorn).