“He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.
I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.
Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
For you have now become nothing; you see my calamity and are afraid. Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’? Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’? Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary's hand’? Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless’?
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