Persecution

“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.””

“Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?”

“My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?”

“I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.”

“But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.”

“Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.”

“Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.”

“I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.”