If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,
For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him.
For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!”
Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!
They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.
And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?
“Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”
“And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.
This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”
By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.
And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”
And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.
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