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

You know how I am insulted, how I am disgraced and dishonored; you see all my enemies.

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I had hoped for sympathy, but there was none; for comfort, but I found none.

Don't forget how I, your servant, am insulted, how I endure all the curses of the heathen.

Your enemies insult your chosen king, O LORD! They insult him wherever he goes.

Israel's holy God and savior says to the one who is deeply despised, who is hated by the nations and is the servant of rulers: "Kings will see you released and will rise to show their respect; princes also will see it, and they will bow low to honor you." This will happen because the LORD has chosen his servant; the holy God of Israel keeps his promises.

"But he endured the suffering that should have been ours, the pain that we should have borne. All the while we thought that his suffering was punishment sent by God.

But because of our sins he was wounded, beaten because of the evil we did. We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows he received.

People passing by shook their heads and hurled insults at Jesus:

In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the Law and the elders made fun of him:

He trusts in God and claims to be God's Son. Well, then, let us see if God wants to save him now!"

For Christ did not please himself. Instead, as the scripture says, "The insults which are hurled at you have fallen on me."

Some were mocked and whipped, and others were put in chains and taken off to prison.

Let us, then, go to him outside the camp and share his shame.

Happy are you if you are insulted because you are Christ's followers; this means that the glorious Spirit, the Spirit of God, is resting on you.

My friends and neighbors will not come near me, because of my sores; even my family keeps away from me.

They say, "He is fatally ill; he will never leave his bed again."

Even my best friend, the one I trusted most, the one who shared my food, has turned against me.

You have caused my friends to abandon me; you have made me repulsive to them. I am closed in and cannot escape;

You have made even my closest friends abandon me, and darkness is my only companion.

God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me;

my relatives and friends are gone.

Even your relatives, members of your own family, have betrayed you; they join in the attacks against you. Do not trust them, even though they speak friendly words."

In these times sons treat their fathers like fools, daughters oppose their mothers, and young women quarrel with their mothers-in-law; your enemies are the members of your own family.

"People will hand over their own brothers to be put to death, and fathers will do the same to their children; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.

Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.

He will destroy them because of those words; all who see them will shake their heads.

You are like those streams to me, you see my fate and draw back in fear.

or to save me from some enemy or tyrant?

But all this has happened in order to make come true what the prophets wrote in the Scriptures." Then all the disciples left him and ran away.

Then Peter said, "I swear that I am telling the truth! May God punish me if I am not! I do not know that man!" Just then a rooster crowed,

No one stood by me the first time I defended myself; all deserted me. May God not count it against them!