Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁶ Sacrifice and offering you did not desire—^(A)
    but my ears you have opened^[a]—^(B)
    burnt offerings^(C) and sin offerings^[b] you did not require.
⁷ Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—
    it is written about me in the scroll.^[c](D)
8 I desire to do your will,^(E) my God;^(F)
    your law is within my heart.”^(G)

⁹ I proclaim your saving acts^(H) in the great assembly;^(I)
    I do not seal my lips, Lord,
    as you know.^(J)
10 I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;
    I speak of your faithfulness^(K) and your saving help.
I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness
    from the great assembly.^(L)

¹¹ Do not withhold your mercy^(M) from me, Lord;
    may your love^(N) and faithfulness^(O) always protect^(P) me.
¹² For troubles^(Q) without number surround me;
    my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.^(R)
They are more than the hairs of my head,^(S)
    and my heart fails^(T) within me.
¹³ Be pleased to save me, Lord;
    come quickly, Lord, to help me.^(U)

¹⁴ May all who want to take my life^(V)
    be put to shame and confusion;^(W)
may all who desire my ruin^(X)
    be turned back in disgrace.
¹⁵ May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!”^(Y)
    be appalled at their own shame.
¹⁶ But may all who seek you^(Z)
    rejoice and be glad^(AA) in you;
may those who long for your saving help always say,
    “The Lord is great!”^(AB)

¹⁷ But as for me, I am poor and needy;^(AC)
    may the Lord think^(AD) of me.
You are my help^(AE) and my deliverer;^(AF)
    you are my God, do not delay.^(AG)

53 Who has believed our message^(A)
    and to whom has the arm^(B) of the Lord been revealed?^(C)
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,^(D)
    and like a root^(E) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance^(F) that we should desire him.
³ He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering,^(G) and familiar with pain.^(H)
Like one from whom people hide^(I) their faces
    he was despised,^(J) and we held him in low esteem.

⁴ Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,^(K)
yet we considered him punished by God,^(L)
    stricken by him, and afflicted.^(M)
5 But he was pierced^(N) for our transgressions,^(O)
    he was crushed^(P) for our iniquities;
the punishment^(Q) that brought us peace^(R) was on him,
    and by his wounds^(S) we are healed.^(T)
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,^(U)
    each of us has turned to our own way;^(V)
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity^(W) of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed^(X) and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;^(Y)
he was led like a lamb^(Z) to the slaughter,^(AA)
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.
⁸ By oppression^[a] and judgment^(AB) he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;^(AC)
    for the transgression^(AD) of my people he was punished.^[b]
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,^(AE)
    and with the rich^(AF) in his death,
though he had done no violence,^(AG)
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.^(AH)

¹⁰ Yet it was the Lord’s will^(AI) to crush^(AJ) him and cause him to suffer,^(AK)
    and though the Lord makes^[c] his life an offering for sin,^(AL)
he will see his offspring^(AM) and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper^(AN) in his hand.
¹¹ After he has suffered,^(AO)
    he will see the light^(AP) of life^[d] and be satisfied^[e];
by his knowledge^[f] my righteous servant^(AQ) will justify^(AR) many,
    and he will bear their iniquities.^(AS)
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,^[g](AT)
    and he will divide the spoils^(AU) with the strong,^[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,^(AV)
    and was numbered with the transgressors.^(AW)
For he bore^(AX) the sin of many,^(AY)
    and made intercession^(AZ) for the transgressors.