But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.

And Jehovah said to Samuel, Consent to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, for Me to not reign over them.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples devise a vain thing?

Let us break and tear away their bonds, and cast away their cords from us.

Thus says Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, to Him whom man despises, to Him whom the nation loathes, the Servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, rulers also shall bow down, because of Jehovah who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, and He shall choose You.

I also cut off three shepherds in one month. And My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred Me.

He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before you.

He who hates Me hates My Father also.

If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin. But now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.

But you denied the Holy and Just One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

and killed the Prince of Life, whom God raised up from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

For truly against Your holy Son Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they, who received the Law by the command of angels and did not keep it, killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One,