Psalms 109:16 Cross References - NSB

¹⁶ for he did not remember to be kind. He drove oppressed, needy, and brokenhearted people to their graves.

²¹ They said to one another: »Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw his distress when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.«

¹¹ David said to Abishai and to all his officials: »My own son is trying to kill me. Why should you be surprised at this Benjaminite? Jehovah told him to curse. Leave him alone and let him curse. ¹² »Perhaps Jehovah will acknowledge my misery and give me some blessings to take away this curse.«

¹ Later Ahithophel said to Absalom: »Let me choose twelve thousand men. Tonight I will set out after David. ² »I will attack him while he is tired and discouraged. He will be frightened! All his men will run away. I will kill only the king.

² »How long will you torment me and depress me with words? ³ »You have insulted me ten times now. You are not even ashamed of hurting me.

²¹ »Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God's hand has struck me down. ²² »Why do you pursue me as God does? Why are you never satisfied with my flesh?

² The wicked proudly persecutes the poor people. He will be caught in the schemes that he contrived.

¹⁴ You have seen trouble and grief and placed them under your control. The victim entrusts himself to you. You alone have been the helper of orphans.

¹⁸ Jehovah is near to those whose hearts and minds are humble and contrite. He saves the broken hearted and crushed in spirit.

¹⁴ The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow to throw down the afflicted and the needy, to slay those who are upright in conduct.

²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none. ²¹ They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. ²² Let their table before them become a snare. Let it become retribution and a trap. ²³ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see. Let their backs be continually bent. ²⁴ Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. ²⁵ Let their habitation be desolate and let no one live in their tents. ²⁶ For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. ²⁷ Charge them with crime upon crime. Do not let them come into your righteousness. ²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. ²⁹ I am in pain and distress. O God, Let your salvation protect me.

³² The wicked spies upon the righteous and seeks to kill him.

⁷ »Blessed are the merciful and compassionate, for they will receive mercy and compassion.

³³ »‘Should you [also] show mercy to your fellow servant the same way I showed mercy to you?’ ³⁴ »His lord was angry and sent him to jail to be punished until he paid back all of his debt. ³⁵ »My heavenly Father will treat you like that if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.«

³⁵ When they impaled him, they divided his garments among themselves by casting lots. ³⁶ Then they sat and watched him. ³⁷ A sign was placed above his head with an accusation written: »This is Jesus the King of the Jews.« ³⁸ Two robbers were impaled with him. One was on the right hand and one on the left. ³⁹ People passing by spoke evil abuse to him. They wagged their heads ⁴⁰ and said, »You who would destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God come down from the stake.« ⁴¹ In like manner the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked him. ⁴² They said: »He saved others, but cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him now come down from the stake and we will believe in him.« ⁴³ He trusts in God. Let him save him now if he wants him. After all he said: »I am the Son of God.« ⁴⁴ The robbers that were impaled with him also insulted him. ⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. ⁴⁶ About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, »Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?« Which (translated) means: »My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?«

³⁴ He said to them: »I am very sorrowful to the point of death. Stay here with me and watch.« ³⁵ He went forward a little ways and fell on the ground to pray. He prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him. ³⁶ He said: »Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this cup from me. Even so not what I will, but what you will.«

¹³ For judgment is without mercy to him who shows no mercy. And mercy triumphs over judgment.