Remove from me reproach and contempt - Of these the captives in Babylon had a more than ordinary load.

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Psalm 119:39,42 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for your judgments are good...

Psalm 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Psalm 42:10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily to me, Where is your God?

Psalm 68:9-11,19,20 You, O God, did send a plentiful rain, whereby you did confirm your inheritance, when it was weary...

Psalm 123:3,4 Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt...

1 Samuel 25:10,39 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse...

2 Samuel 16:7,8 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, you bloody man, and you man of Belial...

Job 16:20 My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God.

Job 19:2,3 How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words...

Hebrews 13:13 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

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Psalm 37:3,6 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land, and truly you shall be fed...

1 Peter 2:20 For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well...

1 Peter 3:16,17 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers...

1 Peter 4:14-16 If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests on you...

'Time for Thee to Work'
'It is time for Thee, Lord, to work; for they have made void Thy Law. 127. Therefore I love Thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold. 128. Therefore I esteem all Thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.' --PSALM cxix. 126-128. If much that we hear be true, a society to circulate Bibles is a most irrational and wasteful expenditure of energy and money. We cannot ignore the extent and severity of the opposition to the very idea of revelation, even if we would; …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

And in Jeremiah He Thus Declares his Death and Descent into Hell...
And in Jeremiah He thus declares His death and descent into hell, saying: And the Lord the Holy One of Israel, remembered his dead, which aforetime fell asleep in the dust of the earth; and he went down unto them, to bring the tidings of his salvation, to deliver them. [255] In this place He also renders the cause of His death: for His descent into hell was the salvation of them that had passed away. And, again, concerning His cross Isaiah says thus: I have stretched out my hands all the day long …
Irenæus—The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching

Progress of Reform in Germany
Luther's mysterious disappearance excited consternation throughout all Germany. Inquiries concerning him were heard everywhere. The wildest rumors were circulated, and many believed that he had been murdered. There was great lamentation, not only by his avowed friends, but by thousands who had not openly taken their stand with the Reformation. Many bound themselves by a solemn oath to avenge his death. The Romish leaders saw with terror to what a pitch had risen the feeling against them. Though at …
Ellen Gould White—The Great Controversy