They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him,
I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.
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;
But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.”
then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.’
And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.
But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.
therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
“He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.
“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
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