All who see me make fun of me; they stick out their tongues and shake their heads.

"You relied on the LORD," they say. "Why doesn't he save you? If the LORD likes you, why doesn't he help you?"

Many enemies surround me like bulls; they are all around me, like fierce bulls from the land of Bashan.

My strength is gone, gone like water spilled on the ground. All my bones are out of joint; my heart is like melted wax.

But when I was in trouble, they were all glad and gathered around to make fun of me; strangers beat me and kept striking me.

How much longer, Lord, will you just look on? Rescue me from their attacks; save my life from these lions!

Don't let my enemies, those liars, gloat over my defeat. Don't let those who hate me for no reason smirk with delight over my sorrow.

They accuse me, shouting, "We saw what you did!"

It is for your sake that I have been insulted and that I am covered with shame.

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.

They persecute those whom you have punished; they talk about the sufferings of those you have wounded.

When people see me, they laugh at me; they shake their heads in scorn.

"Look at me!" she cries to everyone who passes by. "No one has ever had pain like mine, Pain that the LORD brought on me in the time of his anger.

People passing by the city look at you in scorn. They shake their heads and laugh at Jerusalem's ruins: "Is this that lovely city? Is this the pride of the world?"

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

"You were going to tear down the Temple and build it back up in three days! Save yourself if you are God's Son! Come on down from the cross!"

"We heard him say, 'I will tear down this Temple which men have made, and after three days I will build one that is not made by men.' "

They said to one another, "Here comes that dreamer.

Come on now, let's kill him and throw his body into one of the dry wells. We can say that a wild animal killed him. Then we will see what becomes of his dreams."

and said, "This man said, 'I am able to tear down God's Temple and three days later build it back up.' "

The Jewish authorities came back at him with a question, "What miracle can you perform to show us that you have the right to do this?"

"Are you going to build it again in three days?" they asked him. "It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple!"

So when he was raised from death, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and what Jesus had said.