²² Take reproach and contempt away from me, For I have kept your statutes.

⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish.

²⁰ For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

³⁹ Take away my disgrace that I dread, For your ordinances are good.

¹⁴ If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

¹⁵ For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters.

¹⁶ But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

¹⁶ having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good manner of life in Christ.

¹⁷ For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

¹³ Let us therefore go forth to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

³ Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, For we have endured much contempt.

⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.

⁴² So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, For I trust in your word.

¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, Even the God who is our salvation. Selah.

²⁰ God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

⁹ You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

¹⁰ Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

¹¹ The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.

¹⁰ As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

⁶ He will make your righteousness go forth as the light, And your justice as the noon day sun.

³ Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

² "How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?

³ You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

²⁰ My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

⁷ Thus said Shimei when he cursed, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow:

⁸ Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son; and, behold, you are [taken] in your own mischief, because you are a man of blood.

³⁹ When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil: and the evil-doing of Nabal has Yahweh returned on his own head. David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.

¹⁰ Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master.