Verse 24

The Contrast With the Past“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

Referenced Verses

• Judg 5:31 : 31 May all your enemies perish like this, O LORD! But may those who love you shine like the rising sun at its brightest!” And the land had rest for forty years.
• Job 19:7 : 7 Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.
• Ps 35:25 : 25 Do not let them say to themselves,“Aha! We have what we wanted!” Do not let them say,“We have devoured him!”
• Matt 27:39-44 : 39 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads 40 and saying,“You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!” 41 In the same way even the chief priests– together with the experts in the law and elders– were mocking him: 42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him! 43 He trusts in God– let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said,‘I am God’s Son’!” 44 The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.