⁵ If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

¹² For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:

¹⁶ For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

²⁶ Let them be put to shame and confounded together that rejoice at my hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

³⁴ They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

² And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?

² And he answered and said unto them, Think ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have suffered these things?

³ I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.

⁴ Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem?

²⁵ Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon `me', to take away my reproach among men.

⁷ Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified above Judah.

¹⁰ This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.

⁸ Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light unto me.

¹ And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.

¹¹ By this I know that thou delightest in me, Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

³ And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

⁶ And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.