Psalms 22:6

The sufferer feels reduced to a worm, scorned and despised by people. He describes the depth of his humiliation and rejection.

Cross-references · 19

• Isa 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Job 25:6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
• Isa 49:7Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
• Isa 41:14Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
• Ps 69:7–12Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
• Ps 69:19–20Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
• Matt 27:20–23But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
• Ps 31:11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
• Matt 11:19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
• Lam 3:30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
• Heb 13:12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
• Rev 15:3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
• Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
• Ps 88:8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
• John 7:15And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
• John 8:48Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
• John 7:47–49Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
• John 7:20The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
• Ps 31:1In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

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