Psalm 22

New King James Version

The Suffering, Praise, and Posterity of the Messiah

To the Chief Musician. Set to ^[a]“The Deer of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David.

22 My ^(A)God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Why are You so far from helping Me,
And from the words of My groaning?
²O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear;
And in the night season, and am not silent.

³But You are holy,
Enthroned in the ^(B)praises of Israel.
⁴Our fathers trusted in You;
They trusted, and You delivered them.
⁵They cried to You, and were delivered;
^(C)They trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

⁶But I am ^(D)a worm, and no man;
^(E)A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
⁷^(F)All those who see Me ridicule Me;
They ^[b]shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
⁸“He^(G) ^[c]trusted in the Lord, let Him rescue Him;
^(H)Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!”

⁹^(I)But You are He who took Me out of the womb;
You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.
¹⁰I was cast upon You from birth.
From My mother’s womb
^(J)You have been My God.
¹¹Be not far from Me,
For trouble is near;
For there is none to help.

¹²^(K)Many bulls have surrounded Me;
Strong bulls of ^(L)Bashan have encircled Me.
¹³^(M)They ^[d]gape at Me with their mouths,
Like a raging and roaring lion.

¹⁴I am poured out like water,
^(N)And all My bones are out of joint;
My heart is like wax;
It has melted ^[e]within Me.
¹⁵^(O)My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And ^(P)My tongue clings to My jaws;
You have brought Me to the dust of death.

¹⁶For dogs have surrounded Me;
The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me.
^(Q)They^[f] pierced My hands and My feet;
¹⁷I can count all My bones.
^(R)They look and stare at Me.
¹⁸^(S)They divide My garments among them,
And for My clothing they cast lots.

¹⁹But You, O Lord, do not be far from Me;
O My Strength, hasten to help Me!
²⁰Deliver Me from the sword,
^(T)My^[g] precious life from the power of the dog.
²¹^(U)Save Me from the lion’s mouth
And from the horns of the wild oxen!

^(V)You have answered Me.

²²^(W)I will declare Your name to ^(X)My brethren;
In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
²³^(Y)You who fear the Lord, praise Him!
All you ^[h]descendants of Jacob, glorify Him,
And fear Him, all you offspring of Israel!
²⁴For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from Him;
But ^(Z)when He cried to Him, He heard.

²⁵^(AA)My praise shall be of You in the great assembly;
^(AB)I will pay My vows before those who fear Him.
²⁶The poor shall eat and be satisfied;
Those who seek Him will praise the Lord.
Let your heart live forever!

²⁷All the ends of the world
Shall remember and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the ^[i]nations
Shall worship before ^[j]You.
²⁸^(AC)For the kingdom is the Lord’s,
And He rules over the nations.

²⁹^(AD)All the prosperous of the earth
Shall eat and worship;
^(AE)All those who go down to ^[k]the dust
Shall bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep himself alive.

³⁰A posterity shall serve Him.
It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,
³¹They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born,
That He has done this.

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Footnotes

Psalm 22:1 Heb. Aijeleth Hashahar
Psalm 22:7 Show contempt with their mouth
Psalm 22:8 LXX, Syr., Vg. hoped; Tg. praised
Psalm 22:13 Lit. have opened their mouths at Me
Psalm 22:14 Lit. in the midst of My bowels
Psalm 22:16 So with some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg.; MT Like a lion instead of They pierced
Psalm 22:20 Lit. My only one
Psalm 22:23 Lit. seed
Psalm 22:27 Gentiles
Psalm 22:27 So with MT, LXX, Tg.; Arab., Syr., Vg. Him
Psalm 22:29 Death

Isaiah 52:13-53:12

New King James Version

The Sin-Bearing Servant

¹³Behold, ^(A)My Servant shall ^[a]deal prudently;
^(B)He shall be exalted and ^[b]extolled and be very high.
¹⁴Just as many were astonished at you,
So His ^(C)visage^[c] was marred more than any man,
And His form more than the sons of men;
¹⁵^(D)So shall He ^[d]sprinkle many nations.
Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;
For ^(E)what had not been told them they shall see,
And what they had not heard they shall consider.

The Sin-Bearing Messiah

53 Who ^(F)has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no ^[e]form or ^[f]comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no ^[g]beauty that we should desire Him.
³^(G)He is despised and ^[h]rejected by men,
A Man of ^[i]sorrows and ^(H)acquainted with ^[j]grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and ^(I)we did not esteem Him.

⁴Surely ^(J)He has borne our ^[k]griefs
And carried our ^[l]sorrows;
Yet we ^[m]esteemed Him stricken,
^[n]Smitten by God, and afflicted.
⁵But He was ^(K)wounded^[o] for our transgressions,
He was ^[p]bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His ^(L)stripes^[q] we are healed.
⁶All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord ^[r]has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

⁷He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet ^(M)He opened not His mouth;
^(N)He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
⁸He was ^(O)taken from ^[s]prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For ^(P)He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
⁹^(Q)And ^[t]they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any ^(R)deceit in His mouth.

¹⁰Yet it pleased the Lord to ^[u]bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul ^(S)an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
¹¹^[v]He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge ^(T)My righteous ^(U)Servant shall ^(V)justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
¹²^(W)Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
^(X)And He shall divide the ^[w]spoil with the strong,
Because He ^(Y)poured out His soul unto death,
And He was ^(Z)numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And ^(AA)made intercession for the transgressors.

Footnotes

Isaiah 52:13 prosper
Isaiah 52:13 Lit. be lifted up
Isaiah 52:14 appearance
Isaiah 52:15 Or startle
Isaiah 53:2 Stately form
Isaiah 53:2 splendor
Isaiah 53:2 Lit. appearance
Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
Isaiah 53:3 Lit. pains
Isaiah 53:3 Lit. sickness
Isaiah 53:4 Lit. sicknesses
Isaiah 53:4 Lit. pains
Isaiah 53:4 reckoned
Isaiah 53:4 Struck down
Isaiah 53:5 Or pierced through
Isaiah 53:5 crushed
Isaiah 53:5 Blows that cut in
Isaiah 53:6 Lit. has caused to land on Him
Isaiah 53:8 confinement
Isaiah 53:9 Lit. he or He
Isaiah 53:10 crush
Isaiah 53:11 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; DSS, LXX From the labor of His soul He shall see light
Isaiah 53:12 plunder

Hebrews 10:16-25

New King James Version

¹⁶^(A)“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” ¹⁷then He adds, ^(B)“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” ¹⁸Now where there is ^[a]remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

Hold Fast Your Confession

¹⁹Therefore, brethren, having ^(C)boldness^[b] to enter ^(D)the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by a new and ^(E)living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, ²¹and having a High Priest over the house of God, ²²let us ^(F)draw near with a true heart ^(G)in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ²³Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for ^(H)He who promised is faithful. ²⁴And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, ²⁵^(I)not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and ^(J)so much the more as you see ^(K)the Day approaching.