You rebuke the proud -- the cursed, Who stray from Your commandments.

The proud have forged a lie against me, [But] I will keep Your precepts with [my] whole heart.

Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us! For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scorn of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.

O LORD, You induced me, and I was persuaded; You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I am in derision daily; Everyone mocks me.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him.

And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

And the people stood looking on. But even the rulers with them sneered, saying, "He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ, the chosen of God."

I cling to Your testimonies; O LORD, do not put me to shame!

Many [are] my persecutors and my enemies, [Yet] I do not turn from Your testimonies.

Our heart has not turned back, Nor have our steps departed from Your way;

My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside.

and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done [what is] good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

He will not fail nor be discouraged, Till He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands shall wait for His law."

"except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.

"But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares [us,] and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.