Psalm 22

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Psalm 22

For the music leader. According to the “Doe of Dawn.” A psalm of David.

22 My God! My God,
    why have you left me all alone?
    Why are you so far from saving me—
        so far from my anguished groans?
²My God, I cry out during the day,
    but you don’t answer;
    even at nighttime I don’t stop.
³You are the holy one, enthroned.
You are Israel’s praise.
⁴Our ancestors trusted you—
    they trusted you and you rescued them;
⁵    they cried out to you and they were saved;
    they trusted you and they weren’t ashamed.

⁶But I’m just a worm, less than human;
    insulted by one person, despised by another.
⁷All who see me make fun of me—
    they gape, shaking their heads:
⁸    “He committed himself to the Lord,
        so let God rescue him;
        let God deliver him
        because God likes him so much.”
⁹But you are the one who pulled me from the womb,
    placing me safely at my mother’s breasts.
¹⁰I was thrown on you from birth;
    you’ve been my God
    since I was in my mother’s womb.
¹¹Please don’t be far from me,
    because trouble is near
        and there’s no one to help.

¹²Many bulls surround me;
    mighty bulls from Bashan encircle me.
¹³They open their mouths at me
    like a lion ripping and roaring!
¹⁴I’m poured out like water.
    All my bones have fallen apart.
        My heart is like wax;
        it melts inside me.
¹⁵My strength is dried up
    like a piece of broken pottery.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
    you’ve set me down in the dirt of death.
¹⁶Dogs surround me;
    a pack of evil people circle me like a lion—
    oh, my poor hands and feet!
¹⁷I can count all my bones!
    Meanwhile, they just stare at me, watching me.
¹⁸They divvy up my garments among themselves;
    they cast lots for my clothes.

¹⁹But you, Lord! Don’t be far away!
    You are my strength!
    Come quick and help me!
²⁰Deliver me^[a] from the sword.
    Deliver my life from the power of the dog.
²¹    Save me from the mouth of the lion.
    From the horns of the wild oxen
    you have answered me!

²²I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;
    I will praise you in the very center of the congregation!
²³All of you who revere the Lord—praise him!
    All of you who are Jacob’s descendants—honor him!
    All of you who are all Israel’s offspring—
        stand in awe of him!
²⁴Because he didn’t despise or detest
    the suffering of the one who suffered—
    he didn’t hide his face from me.
    No, he listened when I cried out to him for help.

²⁵I offer praise in the great congregation
    because of you;
    I will fulfill my promises
    in the presence of those who honor God.
²⁶Let all those who are suffering eat and be full!
    Let all who seek the Lord praise him!
        I pray your hearts live forever!
²⁷Every part of the earth
    will remember and come back to the Lord;
    every family among all the nations will worship you.
²⁸Because the right to rule belongs to the Lord,
    he rules all nations.
²⁹Indeed, all the earth’s powerful
    will worship him;^[b]
    all who are descending to the dust
    will kneel before him;
    my being also lives for him.^[c]
³⁰Future descendants will serve him;
    generations to come will be told about my Lord.
³¹They will proclaim God’s righteousness
        to those not yet born,
        telling them what God has done.

Footnotes

Psalm 22:20 Or my soul; also in 22:29
Psalm 22:29 Correction; MT All the earth’s powerful have eaten and will worship.
Psalm 22:29 Correction with LXX; Heb uncertain

Isaiah 52:13-53:12

Common English Bible

Suffering servant

¹³Look, my servant will succeed.
    He will be exalted and lifted very high.
¹⁴Just as many were appalled by you,
    he too appeared disfigured, inhuman,
    his appearance unlike that of mortals.
¹⁵But he will astonish^[a] many nations.
    Kings will be silenced because of him,
    because they will see what they haven’t seen before;
    what they haven’t heard before, they will ponder.

53 Who can believe what we have heard,
    and for whose sake has the Lord’s arm^[b] been revealed?
²He grew up like a young plant before us,^[c]
    like a root from dry ground.
He possessed no splendid form for us to see,
    no desirable appearance.
³He was despised and avoided by others;
    a man who suffered, who knew sickness well.
Like someone from whom people hid their faces,
    he was despised, and we didn’t think about him.

⁴It was certainly our sickness that he carried,
    and our sufferings that he bore,
    but we thought him afflicted,
    struck down by God and tormented.
⁵He was pierced because of our rebellions
    and crushed because of our crimes.
    He bore the punishment that made us whole;
    by his wounds we are healed.
⁶Like sheep we had all wandered away,
    each going its own way,
    but the Lord let fall on him all our crimes.

⁷He was oppressed and tormented,
    but didn’t open his mouth.
Like a lamb being brought to slaughter,
    like a ewe silent before her shearers,
    he didn’t open his mouth.

⁸Due to an unjust ruling he was taken away,
    and his fate—who will think about it?
He was eliminated from the land of the living,
    struck dead because of my people’s rebellion.
⁹His grave was among the wicked,
    his tomb with evildoers,^[d]
    though he had done no violence,
    and had spoken nothing false.

¹⁰But the Lord wanted to crush him
    and to make him suffer.
If his life is offered^[e] as restitution,
    he will see his offspring; he will enjoy long life.
    The Lord’s plans will come to fruition through him.
¹¹After his deep anguish he will see light,^[f] and he will be satisfied.
Through his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant,
    will make many righteous,
    and will bear their guilt.
¹²Therefore, I will give him a share with the great,
    and he will divide the spoil with the strong,
    in return for exposing his life to death
    and being numbered with rebels,
    though he carried the sin of many
    and pleaded on behalf of those who rebelled.

Footnotes

Isaiah 52:15 Or sprinkle
Isaiah 53:1 Or power
Isaiah 53:2 Or him
Isaiah 53:9 Cf Tg; MT and with a rich one in his deaths
Isaiah 53:10 Or if you place his life
Isaiah 53:11 DSS (1QIsa^a); MT lacks light.

Hebrews 10:16-24

Common English Bible

¹⁶This is the covenant that I will make with them.
    After these days, says the Lord,
        I will place my laws in their hearts
        and write them on their minds.
¹⁷    And I won’t remember their sins
        and their lawless behavior anymore.^[a]

¹⁸When there is forgiveness for these things, there is no longer an offering for sin.

Second summary of the message

¹⁹Brothers and sisters, we have confidence that we can enter the holy of holies by means of Jesus’ blood, ²⁰through a new and living way that he opened up for us through the curtain, which is his body, ²¹and we have a great high priest over God’s house.

²²Therefore, let’s draw near with a genuine heart with the certainty that our faith gives us, since our hearts are sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies are washed with pure water.

²³Let’s hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, because the one who made the promises is reliable.

²⁴And let us consider each other carefully for the purpose of sparking love and good deeds.

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Footnotes

Hebrews 10:17 Jer 31:33-34

John 19:16-30

Common English Bible

¹⁶Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified.

Crucifixion

The soldiers took Jesus prisoner. ¹⁷Carrying his cross by himself, he went out to a place called Skull Place (in Aramaic, Golgotha). ¹⁸That’s where they crucified him—and two others with him, one on each side and Jesus in the middle. ¹⁹Pilate had a public notice written and posted on the cross. It read “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.” ²⁰Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek. ²¹Therefore, the Jewish chief priests complained to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The king of the Jews’ but ‘This man said, “I am the king of the Jews.”’”

²²Pilate answered, “What I’ve written, I’ve written.”

²³When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and his sandals, and divided them into four shares, one for each soldier. His shirt was seamless, woven as one piece from the top to the bottom. ²⁴They said to each other, “Let’s not tear it. Let’s cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the scripture,

They divided my clothes among themselves,
and they cast lots for my clothing.^[a]
That’s what the soldiers did.

²⁵Jesus’ mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene stood near the cross. ²⁶When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” ²⁷Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

²⁸After this, knowing that everything was already completed, in order to fulfill the scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” ²⁹A jar full of sour wine was nearby, so the soldiers soaked a sponge in it, placed it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips. ³⁰When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, “It is completed.” Bowing his head, he gave up his life.

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