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²⁰“See, O LORD, for I am in distress; My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword slays; In the house it is like death. ²¹“They have heard that I groan; There is no one to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my calamity; They are glad that You have done it Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed, That they may become like me. ²²“Let all their wickedness come before You; And deal with them as You have dealt with me For all my transgressions; For my groans are many and my heart is faint.”

Lamentations 1:20-22

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⁴⁹Remember the word to Your servant, In which You have made me hope. ⁵⁰This is my comfort in my affliction, That Your word has revived me. ⁵¹The arrogant utterly deride me, Yet I do not turn aside from Your law. ⁵²I have remembered Your ordinances from of old, O LORD, And comfort myself.

Psalm 119:49-52

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¹“Comfort, O comfort My people,” says your God. ²“Speak kindly to Jerusalem; And call out to her, that her warfare has ended, That her iniquity has been removed, That she has received of the LORD’S hand Double for all her sins.” ³A voice is calling, “Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness; Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God. ⁴“Let every valley be lifted up, And every mountain and hill be made low; And let the rough ground become a plain, And the rugged terrain a broad valley; ⁵Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, And all flesh will see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.” ~ Isaiah 40:1-5

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So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who had asked of him a king.  11  He said, “This will be the procedure of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and place [them] for himself in his chariots and among his horsemen and they will run before his chariots.  12  “He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of fifties, and [some] to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.  13  “He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers.  14  “He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves and give [them] to his servants.  15  “He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants.  16  “He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use [them] for his work.  17  “He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants.  18  “Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”  19  Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, “No, but there shall be a king over us,  20  that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”  21  Now after Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the Lord’s hearing.  22  The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and appoint them a king.” So Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Go every man to his city.” ~ 1 Samuel 8:10-22

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Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah;  5  and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.”  6  But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.  7  The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.  8  “Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day–in that they have forsaken Me and served other gods–so they are doing to you also.  9  “Now then, listen to their voice; however, you shall solemnly warn them and tell them of the procedure of the king who will reign over them.” ~ 1 Samuel 8:4-9

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Now Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.  He used to go annually on circuit to Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah, and he judged Israel in all these places.  Then his return was to Ramah, for his house was there, and there he judged Israel; and he built there an altar to the Lord.  And it came about when Samuel was old that he appointed his sons judges over Israel. Now the name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; [they] were judging in Beersheba. His sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain and took bribes and perverted justice. ~ 1 Samuel 7:15-8:3

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As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore. So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?” Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. “We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.”  Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?”  Now He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray Him. ~ John 6:66-71

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Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard [this] said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?” But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble? “What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before? “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. “But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him. And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.” As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore ~ John 6:60-66

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“I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”  52  Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”  53  So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.  54  “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.  55  “For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.  56  “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.  57  “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.  58  “This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.”  59  These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum. ~ John 6:51-59

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Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.”  42  They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, `I have come down out of heaven’?”  43  Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.  44  “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.  45  “It is written in the prophets, `And they shall all be taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.  46  “Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.  47  “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.  48  “I am the bread of life.  49  “Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.  50  “This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. ~ John 6:41-50

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