I will be happy and rejoice in your faithfulness, because you notice my pain and you are aware of how distressed I am. ¹ 

May those who want to harm me be totally embarrassed and ashamed! ¹  May those who arrogantly taunt me be covered with shame and humiliation! ² 

The king told them, “I have had a dream, ¹  and I ²  am anxious to understand the dream.”

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.” ¹ 

For our momentary, light suffering ¹  is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

Therefore I am content with ¹  weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties ²  for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

I will increase their ¹  disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

For you ¹  will forget your trouble; ²  you will remember it like water that ³  has flowed away.

“Man, born of woman, ¹  lives but a few days, ²  and they are full of trouble. ³ 

If indeed ¹  you would exalt yourselves ²  above me and plead my disgrace against me, ³ 

But if they are bound in chains, ¹  and held captive by the cords of affliction,

Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes. ¹ 

Then he angrily speaks to them and terrifies them in his rage, ¹  saying, ² 

Pay attention to me and answer me! I am so upset ¹  and distressed, ²  I am beside myself, ³ 

This ¹  is what comforts me in my trouble, for your promise revives me. ² 

Distress and hardship confront ¹  me, yet I find delight in your commands.

let them ¹  drink and forget ²  their poverty, and remember their misery no more.

Do not cause me dismay! ¹  You are my source of safety in times of trouble.

“You are the ones who have remained ¹  with me in my trials.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, ¹  in troubles, ²  in sleepless nights, in hunger,