But I am no longer a human being; I am a worm, despised and scorned by everyone!

I am weak and poor, O Lord, but you have not forgotten me. You are my savior and my God--- hurry to my aid!

Listen to me, LORD, and answer me, for I am helpless and weak.

He will hear his forsaken people and listen to their prayer.

The LORD looked down from his holy place on high, he looked down from heaven to earth.

Jesus answered him, "Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lie down and rest."

You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; rich as he was, he made himself poor for your sake, in order to make you rich by means of his poverty.

That man never thought of being kind; he persecuted and killed the poor, the needy, and the helpless.

Ever since I was young, I have suffered and been near death; I am worn out from the burden of your punishments.

Your furious anger crushes me; your terrible attacks destroy me.

I am beaten down like dry grass; I have lost my desire for food.

but when she came to Elisha, she bowed down before him and took hold of his feet. Gehazi was about to push her away, but Elisha said, "Leave her alone. Can't you see she's deeply distressed? And the LORD has not told me a thing about it."

Almighty God has shot me with arrows, and their poison spreads through my body. God has lined up his terrors against me.

We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him--- we ignored him as if he were nothing.

In great anguish he prayed even more fervently; his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

"Now my heart is troubled---and what shall I say? Shall I say, 'Father, do not let this hour come upon me'? But that is why I came---so that I might go through this hour of suffering.