Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
(As it is written: For thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)
For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.
They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:
But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.