Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁶ Sacrifice and offering You did not desire (my ears You have prepared). Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

⁷ Then I said, “Lo, I come. In the roll of the Book it is written of me.

⁸ “I desired to do Your good will, O my God. Indeed, Your Law is within my heart.”

⁹ I have declared righteousness in the great congregation. Lo, I will not refrain my lips. O LORD, You know.

¹⁰ I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart. I have declared Your truth and Your salvation. I have not concealed Your mercy and Your truth from the great Congregation.

¹¹ Do not withdraw Your tender mercy from me, O LORD. Let Your mercy and Your truth always preserve me.

¹² For innumerable troubles have surrounded me. My sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up. They are more in number than the hairs of my head. Therefore, my heart has failed me.

¹³ Let it please You, O LORD, to deliver me. Hurry, O LORD, to help me.

¹⁴ Let those who seek my soul to destroy it be confounded and put to shame together. Let those who desire my hurt be driven backward and put to rebuke.

¹⁵ Let those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” be destroyed as a reward for their shame,

¹⁶ Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You, and let those who love Your salvation, say always, “The LORD be praised!”

¹⁷ Though I be poor and needy, the LORD thinks on me. You are my Helper and my Deliverer. My God, do not delay. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.

53 Who will believe our report? And to whom is the Arm of the LORD revealed?

² But He shall grow up before Him as a branch, and as a root out of a dry ground. He has neither form nor beauty. When we shall see Him, there shall be no form that would cause us to desire Him.

³ He is despised and rejected by men. He is a man full of sorrows and acquainted with sickness. We hid, as it were, our faces from Him. He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

⁴ Surely, He has born our sickness and carried our sorrows. Yet, we judged Him as touched and stricken by God, and humbled.

⁵ But He was wounded for our transgressions. He was broken for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him. And with His stripes we are healed.

⁶ All of us, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned, every one, to his own way. And the LORD has laid the iniquity of us all upon Him.

⁷ He was oppressed and He was afflicted. Yet, He did not open His Mouth. He is brought as a sheep to the slaughter. And as a sheep before her shearer is dumb, so He did not open His Mouth.

⁸ He was taken out from prison, and from judgment. And who shall declare His age? For He was cut out of the land of the living. For He was plagued for the transgression of my people.

⁹ And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich, in His death. Though He had done no wickedness. Nor was any deceit in His Mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it pleased the LORD to break Him and make Him endure grief, when He shall make His soul an Offering for sin. He shall see His seed and shall prolong His days. And the will of the LORD shall prosper in His Hand.

¹¹ He shall see the labor of His soul and shall be satisfied. “By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify many. For He shall bear their iniquities.

¹² “Therefore, I will give him a portion with the great. And He shall divide the plunder with the strong, because He has poured out His soul until death. And He was counted with the transgressors. And He bore the sin of many, and prayed for the trespassers.”

10 For the law, having the shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things, can never - with those sacrifices which they offer year by year continually - sanctify those who come to it.

² For would they not, then, have ceased to have been offered, because those who offer (once purged) would have had no more consciousness of sins?

³ But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance of sins again every year.

⁴ For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.