Psa 2:1-3, Psa 22, Psa 69, Isa 53, Mat 16:21, 17:22-23, 26:2 | ESV | STEP | Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain ?

1 ^aWhy do ^bthe nations rage ^{▼▼Or nations noisily assemble}
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his ^dAnointed, saying,
3 “Let us ^eburst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”

Psalms 22

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

1 ^fMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so ^gfar from saving me, from the words of my ^hgroaning?
2 O my God, I cry by ⁱday, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.
3 Yet you are ^jholy,
^kenthroned on ^lthe praises ^{▼▼Or dwelling in the praises} of Israel.
4 In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
5 To you they ⁿcried and were rescued;
in you they ^otrusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I am ^pa worm and not a man,
^qscorned by mankind and ^rdespised by the people.
7 All who see me ^smock me;
they make mouths at me; they ^twag their heads;
8 ^u“He trusts in the Lord; let him ^vdeliver him;
let him rescue him, for he ^wdelights in him!”
9 Yet you are he who ^xtook me from the womb;
you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.
10 On you was I cast from my birth,
and from ^ymy mother’s womb you have been my God.
11 Be not ^zfar from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is ^aanone to help.
12 Many bulls encompass me;
^abstrong bulls of ^acBashan surround me;
13 they ^adopen wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
14 I am ^aepoured out like water,
and all my bones are ^afout of joint;
my ^agheart is like ^ahwax;
it is melted within my breast;
15 my strength is ^aidried up like a potsherd,
and my ^ajtongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.
16 For ^akdogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers ^alencircles me;
they have ^ampierced my hands and feet ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts like a lion [they are at] my hands and feet}—
17 I can count all my bones—
they ^aostare and gloat over me;
18 ^apthey divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.
19 But you, O Lord, ^aqdo not be far off!
O you my help, ^arcome quickly to my aid!
20 Deliver my soul from the sword,
my precious life from the power of ^asthe dog!
21 Save me from ^atthe mouth of the lion!
You have rescued ^{▼▼Hebrew answered} me from the horns of ^avthe wild oxen!
22 ^awI will tell of your name to my ^axbrothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
23 You who ^ayfear the Lord, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, ^azglorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
24 For he has not despised or abhorred
the affliction of ^bathe afflicted,
and he has not ^bbhidden his face from him,
but has heard, when he ^bccried to him.
25 From you comes my praise in the great ^bdcongregation;
my ^bevows I will ^bfperform before those who fear him.
26 ^bgThe afflicted ^{▼▼Or The meek} shall ^bieat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
May your hearts ^bjlive forever!
27 All ^bkthe ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all ^blthe families of the nations
shall worship before you.
28 For ^bmkingship belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.
29 All ^bnthe prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
before him shall ^bobow all who go down to the dust,
even the one who could not ^bpkeep himself alive.
30 Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming ^bqgeneration;
31 they shall ^brcome and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet ^bsunborn,
that he has done it.

Psalms 69

Save Me, O God

To the choirmaster: according to ^btLilies. Of David.

1 Save me, O God!
For ^buthe waters have come up to my neck. ^{▼▼Or waters threaten my life}
2 I sink in deep ^bwmire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood ^bxsweeps over me.
3 ^byI am weary with my crying out;
^bzmy throat is parched.
^caMy eyes grow dim
with ^cbwaiting for my God.
4 ^ccMore in number than the hairs of my head
are ^cdthose who hate me ^cewithout cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
^cfthose who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
must I now restore?
5 O God, you know my folly;
the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
6 Let not those who hope in you ^cgbe put to shame through me,
O Lord God of hosts;
let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,
O God of Israel.
7 For it is ^chfor your sake that I have borne reproach,
that dishonor has covered my face.
8 I have become ^cia stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons.
9 For ^cjzeal for your house has consumed me,
and ^ckthe reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10 When I wept and humbled ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks and humbled} my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.
11 When I made ^cmsackcloth my clothing,
I became ^cna byword to them.
12 I am the talk of those who ^cosit in the gate,
and the drunkards make ^cpsongs about me.
13 But as for me, my ^cqprayer is to you, O Lord.
At ^cran acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
14 Deliver me
from sinking in ^csthe mire;
^ctlet me be delivered from my enemies
and from ^cuthe deep waters.
15 Let not the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or ^cvthe pit close ^cwits mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O Lord, for your ^cxsteadfast love is good;
according to your abundant ^cymercy, ^czturn to me.
17 ^daHide not your face from your servant,
^dbfor I am in distress; ^dcmake haste to answer me.
18 Draw near to my soul, redeem me;
ransom me because of my enemies!
19 You know my ^ddreproach,
and my shame and my dishonor;
my foes are all known to you.
20 ^deReproaches have broken my heart,
so that I am in ^dfdespair.
I ^dglooked for ^dhpity, but there was none,
and for ^dicomforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me ^djpoison for food,
and for my thirst they gave me ^dksour wine to drink.
22 ^dlLet their own ^dmtable before them become a snare;
^dnand when they are at peace, let it become a trap. ^{▼▼Hebrew; a slight revocalization yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome) a snare, and retribution and a trap}
23 ^dpLet their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
^dqand make their loins tremble continually.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.
25 ^drMay their camp be a desolation;
let no one dwell in their tents.
26 For they ^dspersecute him whom ^dtyou have struck down,
and they recount the pain of ^duthose you have wounded.
27 ^dvAdd to them punishment upon punishment;
may they have no acquittal from you. ^{▼▼Hebrew may they not come into your righteousness}
28 Let them be ^dxblotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be ^dyenrolled among the righteous.
29 But I am afflicted and in pain;
let your salvation, O God, ^dzset me on high!
30 I will ^eapraise the name of God with a song;
I will ^ebmagnify him with ^ecthanksgiving.
31 This will ^edplease the Lord more than an ox
or a bull ^eewith horns and hoofs.
32 When ^efthe humble see it they will be glad;
you who seek God, ^eglet your hearts revive.
33 For the Lord hears the needy
and ^ehdoes not despise his own people who are prisoners.
34 Let ^eiheaven and earth praise him,
the seas and everything that moves in them.
35 For ^ejGod will save Zion
and build up the cities of Judah,
and people shall dwell there and possess it;
36 ^ekthe offspring of his servants shall inherit it,
and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

Isaiah 53

1 ^elWho has believed what he has heard from us? ^{▼▼Or Who has believed what we have heard?}
And to whom has ^enthe arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
^eoand like a root out of dry ground;
^ephe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 ^eqHe was despised and rejected ^{▼▼Or forsaken} by men,
a man of sorrows, ^{▼▼Or pains; also verse 4} and acquainted with ^{▼▼Or and knowing} grief; ^{▼▼Or sickness; also verse 4}
and as one from whom men hide their faces ^{▼▼Or as one who hides his face from us}
he was despised, and ^ewwe esteemed him not.
4 ^exSurely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
^eysmitten by God, and afflicted.
5 ^ezBut he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
^faand with his wounds we are healed.
6 ^fbAll we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
^fcand the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
^fdyet he opened not his mouth;
^felike a ^fflamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, ^fgwho considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked
^fhand with a rich man in his death,
although ^fihe had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet ^fjit was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief; ^{▼▼Or he has made him sick}
^flwhen his soul makes ^{▼▼Or when you make his soul} an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
^fnthe will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll he shall see light} and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall ^fpthe righteous one, my servant,
^fqmake many to be accounted righteous,
^frand he shall bear their iniquities.
12 ^fsTherefore I will divide him a portion with the many, ^{▼▼Or with the great}
^fuand he shall divide the spoil with the strong, ^{▼▼Or with the numerous}
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
^fwyet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Matthew 16:21

Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection

21 ^fxFrom that time Jesus began to show his disciples that ^fyhe must go to Jerusalem and ^fzsuffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on ^gathe third day be raised.

Matthew 17:22-23

Jesus Again Foretells Death, Resurrection

22 ^gbAs they were gathering ^{▼▼Some manuscripts remained} in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men, 23 and they will kill him, and he will be raised on ^gdthe third day.” And they were greatly distressed.

Matthew 26:2

2 ^ge“You know that after two days ^gfthe Passover is coming, and ^ggthe Son of Man ^ghwill be delivered up to be crucified.”

Psalms 2:1-3

The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed