Verse 10
O mother, alas that thou euer didst beare me, a brawler and rebuker of the whole lande: though I neuer lent nor receaued vpon vsurie, yet all men speake euyll vpon me.
Referenced Verses
- Exod 22:25 : 25 If thou lende money to any of my people that is poore by thee, thou shalt not be as a tiraunt vnto him, neither shalt thou lay vpon him vsurie.
- Ps 15:5 : 5 He that geueth not his money vpon vsurie: nor taketh rewarde agaynst the innocent. He that doth these thynges: shall neuer at any tyme be remoued.
- Jer 1:18-19 : 18 For beholde, this day do I make thee a strong fensed towne, an iron pyller, and a brasen wall, agaynst the whole lande, agaynst the kinges and mightie men of Iuda, agaynst the priestes and people of the lande. 19 They shall fight agaynst thee, but they shall not be able to ouercome thee: for I am with thee to deliuer thee, saith the Lorde.
- Jer 15:20 : 20 And so shall I make thee a strong brasen wall agaynst this people, they shall fyght agaynst thee, but they shall not preuayle: for I my selfe wyll be with thee, to helpe thee and deliuer thee, saith the Lorde:
- Jer 20:7-8 : 7 O Lord, if I am deceaued, then hast thou deceaued me, thou enforcedst me, and hast preuayled: dayly am I despised and laughed to scorne of euery man. 8 For since I began to preache, I cryed out against violencie, and exclamed against oppression: for the whiche cause they cast the worde of the Lorde in my teeth, to my reproche continually.
- Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was borne, vnhappy be the day wherein my mother brought me foorth. 15 Cursed be the man that brought my father the tidinges to make hym gald, saying, Thou hast begotten a sonne: 16 Let it happen vnto that man, as to the cities whiche the Lorde turned vpsidedowne and repented not: Let hym heare crying in the morning, and at noone day lamentable howling. 17 Why sluest thou not me assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? or that my mother had ben my graue her selfe, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her? 18 Wherefore came I foorth of my mothers wombe? to haue experience of labour and sorowe, and to leade my lyfe with shame?
- Ezek 2:6-7 : 6 And thou sonne of man feare them not, neither be afraide of their wordes, for bryers and thornes are with thee, and thou doest dwell among scorpions: feare not their wordes, nor be abashed at their lookes, for they are a rebellious house. 7 And thou shalt speake my wordes vnto them, whether they wyll heare or refuse, for they are rebellious.
- Ezek 3:7-9 : 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken vnto thee, for they will not hearken vnto me: for al the house of Israel haue stiffe foreheades, & stubburne heartes. 8 Beholde therefore, I haue made thy face strong against their faces, & thy forehead strong against their foreheades. 9 As an Adamant, harder then the flint stone haue I made thy forehead: thou shalt not feare them, nor be abashed at their lookes: for they are a rebellious house.
- Matt 5:44 : 44 But I saye vnto you, loue your enemies, blesse them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, pray for the which hurt you, and persecute you:
- Matt 10:21-23 : 21 The brother shall delyuer vp the brother to death, and the father the sonne, & the chyldren shall ryse agaynst their fathers, and mothers, and shall put them to death. 22 And ye shalbe hated of all men, for my names sake: but he that endureth to the ende, shalbe saued. 23 But, when they persecute you in this citie, flee ye into another. For verily I say vnto you, ye shall not ende all the cities of Israel, tyll the sonne of man be come.
- Matt 24:9 : 9 Then shall they put you to trouble, and shall kyll you, and ye shalbe hated of all nations for my names sake.
- Luke 2:34 : 34 And Simeon blessed them, & saide vnto Marie his mother: beholde, this chylde is set to be the fall & vprysyng agayne of many in Israel, & for a signe which is spoken agaynst.
- Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed shall ye be when men hate you, & seperate you from their companie and raile on you, & put out your names as an euyll thyng, for the sonne of mans sake.
- Acts 16:20-22 : 20 And brought them to the officers, saying: These men trouble our citie, being Iewes: 21 And preache ordinaunces, which are not lawfull for vs to receaue, neither to obserue, seeyng we are Romanes. 22 And the people ran agaynst them, and the officers rent their clothes, and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes.
- Acts 17:6-8 : 6 And when they founde them not, they drewe Iason and certaine brethren vnto the heades of the citie, crying: these that trouble the world, are come hyther also, 7 Whom Iason hath receaued priuily. And these al do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another kyng one Iesus. 8 And they troubled the people, and the officers of the citie, when they hearde these thynges.
- Acts 19:8-9 : 8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldlye for the space of three monethes, disputyng & perswadyng those thynges that appertayne to the kyngdome of God. 9 But when diuers waxed harde hearted, and beleued not, but spake euyll of the way
- Acts 19:25-28 : 25 Whom he called together, with the workemen of like occupation, and sayde: Sirs, ye knowe that by this craft we haue aduauntage. 26 Moreouer, ye see and heare, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people, saying that they be not gods which are made with handes. 27 So that not only this our craft commeth into peryll to be set at naught, but also that the temple of ye great goddesse Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the worlde worshippeth. 28 And when they hearde these sayinges, they were full of wrath, and cryed out, saying: great is Diana of ye Ephesians.
- Acts 28:22 : 22 But we wyll heare of thee, what thou thynkest: For as concernyng this sect, we knowe that euery where it is spoke agaynst.
- 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For me thynketh, that God hath set foorth vs, whiche are the last apostles, as it were men appoynted to death. For we are made a gasyng stocke vnto the worlde, and to the angels, and to men. 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christe. We are weake, but ye are stronge. Ye are honorable, but we are despised. 11 Euen vnto this time we both hunger and thirste, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwellyng place. 12 And labour, working with our owne handes. We are reuyled, and we blesse. We are persecuted, and suffer it. 13 We are euyll spoken of, and we praye: we are made as the fylthynesse of the worlde, the ofscowryng of all thynges vnto this day.
- Ps 109:28 : 28 They will curse, but thou wylt blesse: they wyl rise vp against me but let them be confounded, and thy seruaunt wyll reioyce.
- Ps 120:5-6 : 5 Wo be vnto me that am constrayned to be conuersaunt in Mesech: and to dwell among the tentes of Cedar. 6 My soule hath dwelt long: with hym that hateth peace.
- Prov 26:2 : 2 As the byrde and the swalowe take their flight and flee here and there: so the curse that is geuen in vayne, shall not light vpon a man.
- Lev 25:36 : 36 And thou shalt take none vsurie of hym, or vantage: but thou shalt feare thy God, that thy brother may lyue with thee.
- Deut 23:19-20 : 19 Thou shalt not hurt thy brother by vsurie of money, nor by vsurie of corne, nor by vsurie of any thyng that he may be hurt withall. 20 Unto a straunger thou mayest lend vpon vsurie, but not vnto thy brother: that the Lord thy God may blesse thee in all that thou settest thyne hande to in the lande whyther thou goest to possesse it.
- 1 Kgs 18:17-18 : 17 And it fortuned that when Ahab sawe Elias, he saide vnto him: Art thou he that troubleth Israel? 18 He aunswered: It is not I that haue troubled Israel, but thou and thy fathers house, in that ye haue forsaken the commaundements of the Lorde, & thou hast folowed Baal.
- 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab sayde to Elias: Hast thou founde me, O thou myne enemie? He aunswered: I haue founde thee, for thou hast sold thy selfe to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde.
- 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 And the king of Israel sayde vnto Iehosaphat: There is yet one man (Michea the sonne of Iimla) by whom we may aske counsell of the Lorde: But I hate him, for he doth not prophecie good vnto me, but euyll. And Iehosaphat sayde: Let not the king say so.
- Neh 5:1-6 : 1 And there arose a great complaynt of the people and their wyues against their brethre the Iewes. 2 For there were some that saide, Our sonnes and daughters and we are very many: therefore wyll we take corne for them, that we may eate and liue. 3 Some also there were that saide: Let vs set our landes, vineyardes, and houses to pledge, and take vp corne in the dearth. 4 But some there were that saide: We haue borowed money for the kinges tribute, and that vpon our landes & vineyardes. 5 And now our fleshe is as the fleshe of our brethren, and our children as their children: and loe we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters as seruauntes, and some of our daughters are subdued vnto bondage alredie, and no strength is there in our handes to redeeme them, and other men haue our landes and vineyardes. 6 And when I heard their complaynt and such wordes, it displeased me sore.
- Job 3:1-9 : 1 After this opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day, 2 And Iob aunswered, and sayde: 3 Let the day perishe wherin I was borne, and the night in the whiche it was sayd, There is a man childe conceaued. 4 The same day be turned to darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it: 5 But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death, let the dimme cloude fall vpon it, whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day. 6 Let the darke storme ouercome that night, and let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yere, nor counted in the number of the monethes. 7 Desolate be that night, and without gladnesse. 8 Let them that curse the day, and that be redy to rayse vp mourning, geue it also their curse. 9 Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day: 10 Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes. 11 Alas why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? 12 Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes? 13 Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest, 14 Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places, 15 Or as the princes that haue had golde, and their houses full of siluer: 16 Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light? 17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest: 18 There the prisoners rest together, they heare no more the voyce of the oppressour: 19 There are small and great, and the seruaunt is free from his maister. 20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes? 21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures: 22 Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue, 23 From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God? 24 For my sighes come before I eate, and my roringes are powred out like the water: 25 For the thing that I feared is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afrayde of is happened vnto me, 26 Was I not happy? Had I not quietnesse? Was I not in rest? And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me.