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.
Reproach
But there
Comforters
General references
Bible References
Reproach
Psalm 42:10
My enemies' taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
Psalm 123:4
We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud.
Hebrews 11:36
And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
I am
Psalm 42:6
I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Matthew 26:37
He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became anguished and distressed.
John 12:27
"Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.
But there
Psalm 142:4
Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.
John 16:32
Look, a time is coming -- and has come -- when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.
2 Timothy 4:16
At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me -- may they not be held accountable for it.
Comforters
Job 16:2
"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
Job 19:21
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
Matthew 26:56
But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled.
General references
Psalm 89:50
Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!
Proverbs 18:3
When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.