And I said, O Lord, Sovereign Lord, behold, I know not [how] to speak, for I am a child.

Be not afraid before them; for I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.

Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? My wound is severe; when shall I be healed? It has indeed become to me as deceitful water that has no faithfulness.

But I have not been weary of following You, nor have I desired the day of man. You know the [words] that proceed out of my lips; [they] are before Your face.

And Moses turned to the Lord and said, I pray, O Lord, why have You afflicted this people? And why have You sent me?

For from the time that I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has afflicted this people, and You have not delivered Your people.

And Moses said to the Lord, Why have You afflicted Your servant, and why have I not found grace in Your sight, that You should lay the weight of this people upon me?

Where am I to get the meat to give to all these people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us meat, that we may eat.

And if You do thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favor with You, that I may not see my affliction.

Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no longer speak in His name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and cannot bear [up].

And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me.

Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of power, to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to forego working?

Woe is me, [my] mother! You have born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth. I have not helped [others], nor has anyone helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.

The Lord has made you priest in the place of Jehoida the priest, to be ruler in the house of the Lord over every prophet, and to every madman, and you shall put them in prison, and into the dungeon.

And he went up there to Bethel. And as he was going up by the road, there came up also little children from the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, baldhead, go up.

But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and the scorn of the people.

All that saw Me mocked Me; they spoke with [their] lips, they shook the head, [saying],

Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew [it] not; they were scattered, but repented not.

They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.

For the zeal of Your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached You have fallen upon me.

And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them.

I became a laughing stock to all my people; and their song all the day.

The days of vengeance have come, the days of your recompense have come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged. By reason of the multitude of your iniquities your madness has abounded.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and they were mocking Him.

Now the men who were holding Jesus were mocking Him and beating [Him].

And having blindfolded Him, they were striking His face and asking Him, saying, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck You?"

Then Herod, with his men of war, having treated Him with contempt, and having mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.

And the people stood, observing. And the rulers with them also were sneering, saying, "He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ, the elect of God."

The soldiers also mocked Him, coming and offering Him sour wine,

And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, "What does this seed-picker wish to say?" But others [said], "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

But when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some were scoffing, but others said, "We will hear you again concerning this."

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men appointed to death; for we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are naked, and beaten, and homeless.

being defamed, we encourage; we have become as the sweepings of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

Still others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and of prison.