Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger,
But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,” lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, and a babbling fool will come to ruin.
Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy. When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!”
And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.
“I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;
Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;
O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.
Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it. May the Lord judge between me and you, may the Lord avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.
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