Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁶ How innumerable, O Lord, my God,
    are the wonders you have worked;
no one can compare with you
    in the plans you have made for us.
I would proclaim them and recount them,
    but there are far too many to enumerate.
^7 [a]Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
    but you have made my ears receptive.^[b]
Burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you did not demand.
^8 [c]Then I said, “Behold I come;
    it is written of me in the scroll of the book.
⁹ To do your will, O God, is my delight;
    your law is in my heart.”^[d]
10 I have proclaimed your righteousness in the great assembly;
    I did not seal my lips,
    as you well know, O Lord.
¹¹ I have not concealed your righteousness within the depths of my heart;
    I have spoken of your faithfulness and salvation.
I have not concealed your kindness and your truth
    in the great assembly.
¹² O Lord, do not withhold your mercy from me;
    may your kindness^[e] and your truth keep me safe forever.
¹³ I am surrounded by evils without number;
    my sins have so engulfed me that I cannot see.
They outnumber the hairs on my head,
    and my heart sinks within me.^[f]
14 [g]Be pleased, O Lord, to rescue me
    O Lord, come quickly to my aid.
^15 [h]May all those who seek to take my life
    endure shame and confusion.
May all those who desire my ruin
    be turned back and humiliated.
¹⁶ May those who cry out to me, “Aha, aha!”^[i]
    be overcome with shame and dismay.
¹⁷ But may all who seek you
    rejoice in you and be jubilant.
May those who love your salvation
    cry out forever, “The Lord be magnified.”

¹ Who has believed what we have heard?
    And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
² He grew up before him like a sapling,
    like a shoot in arid ground.
He had no beauty or majesty
    that would cause us to look at him;
    nothing in his appearance would attract us to him.
³ He was despised and shunned by others,
    a man of sorrows who was no stranger to suffering.
We loathed him and regarded him as of no account,
    as one from whom men avert their gaze.
⁴ Although it was our afflictions that he bore,
    our sufferings that he endured,
we thought of him as stricken,
    as struck down by God and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced for our offenses
    and crushed for our iniquity;
the punishment that made us whole fell upon him,
    and by his bruises we have been healed.
⁶ We had all gone astray like sheep,
    each of us following his own way,
but the Lord laid upon him
    the guilt of us all.
⁷ Although harshly treated and afflicted,
    he did not open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
    and like a sheep that keeps silent before its shearers,
    he did not open his mouth.
⁸ Unjustly condemned, he was taken away,
    and who gave any thought to his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living
    and stricken for the sins of his people.
⁹ They assigned him a grave with the wicked
    and a burial place with evildoers,
even though he had done no act of violence
    nor had he ever spoken deceitfully.
¹⁰ Yet it was the will of the Lord
    to crush him with pain.
For if he gives his life as a sacrifice for sin,
    he will see his offspring and prolong his life,
    and through him the will of the Lord will be accomplished.
¹¹ As a result of his anguish
    my servant will behold the light and be content.
Through his humiliation he will justify many,
    and their guilt he will bear.
¹² Therefore, I will allot him a portion among the great,
    and he will divide the spoils with the mighty,
because he exposed himself to death
    and was counted among the transgressors,
even though he bore the sins of many
    and interceded for the transgressors.