Isaiah 53:10-12
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain.[a]
When you make his life an offering for sin,[b]
he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.
11 Out of his anguish he shall see light;[c]
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
The righteous one,[d] my servant, shall make many righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he poured out himself to death,
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 53:10 Or by disease; meaning of Heb uncertain
- Isaiah 53:10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
- Isaiah 53:11 Q Mss: MT lacks light
- Isaiah 53:11 Or and he shall find satisfaction. Through his knowledge, the righteous one
Psalm 31:9-16
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
9 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
my eye wastes away from grief,
my soul and body also.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow,
and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my misery,[a]
and my bones waste away.
11 I am the scorn of all my adversaries,
a horror[b] to my neighbours,
an object of dread to my acquaintances;
those who see me in the street flee from me.
12 I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;
I have become like a broken vessel.
13 For I hear the whispering of many—
terror all around!—
as they scheme together against me,
as they plot to take my life.
14 But I trust in you, O Lord;
I say, ‘You are my God.’
15 My times are in your hand;
deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors.
16 Let your face shine upon your servant;
save me in your steadfast love.
Footnotes
- Psalm 31:10 Gk Syr: Heb my iniquity
- Psalm 31:11 Cn: Heb exceedingly
Hebrews 2:1-9
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Warning to Pay Attention
2 Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. 2 For if the message declared through angels was valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty, 3 how can we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was declared at first through the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him, 4 while God added his testimony by signs and wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, distributed according to his will.
Exaltation through Abasement
5 Now God[a] did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. 6 But someone has testified somewhere,
‘What are human beings that you are mindful of them,[b]
or mortals, that you care for them?[c]
7 You have made them for a little while lower[d] than the angels;
you have crowned them with glory and honour,[e]
8 subjecting all things under their feet.’
Now in subjecting all things to them, God[f] left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them, 9 but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower[g] than the angels, now crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God[h] he might taste death for everyone.
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- Hebrews 2:5 Gk he
- Hebrews 2:6 Gk What is man that you are mindful of him?
- Hebrews 2:6 Gk or the son of man that you care for him? In the Hebrew of Psalm 8.4–6 both man and son of man refer to all humankind
- Hebrews 2:7 Or them only a little lower
- Hebrews 2:7 Other ancient authorities add and set them over the works of your hands
- Hebrews 2:8 Gk he
- Hebrews 2:9 Or who was made a little lower
- Hebrews 2:9 Other ancient authorities read apart from God
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