The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

watchmen

Songs 3:3 The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?

Isaiah 6:10,11 Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them. . . .

Hosea 9:7,8 The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness. . . .

Acts 20:29,30 I know that after my departure ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:13 For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

they smote

Psalm 141:5 The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Hosea 6:5 For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.

John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.

Acts 26:9,10 And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. . . .

Philippians 3:6 According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.

Revelation 17:5,6 And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery: Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the earth. . . .

the keepers

Songs 8:11 The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.

Isaiah 62:6 Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the day, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace. You that are mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,

Matthew 21:33-41 Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a press and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a strange country. . . .

Matthew 23:2,29-36 Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. . . .

took

Luke 6:22 Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

Acts 5:40,41 And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus. And they dismissed them. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:10-13 We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour. . . .

Hebrews 11:36,37 And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of bands and prisons. . . .

Hebrews 12:2 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

1 Peter 4:14-16 If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory and power of God, and that which is his Spirit resteth upon you. . . .