Psa 22, Isa 50:6, 53:2-12, Luk 24:26-27, 44, Act 4:12, 17:3, 1Pe 1:3 | ESV | STEP | To the choirmaster : according to The Doe of the Dawn . A Psalm of David . My God , my God , why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning ?

1 ^aMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so ^bfar from saving me, from the words of my ^cgroaning?
2 O my God, I cry by ^dday, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.
3 Yet you are ^eholy,
^fenthroned on ^gthe praises ^{▼▼Or dwelling in the praises} of Israel.
4 In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
5 To you they ⁱcried and were rescued;
in you they ^jtrusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I am ^ka worm and not a man,
^lscorned by mankind and ^mdespised by the people.
7 All who see me ⁿmock me;
they make mouths at me; they ^owag their heads;
8 ^p“He trusts in the Lord; let him ^qdeliver him;
let him rescue him, for he ^rdelights in him!”
9 Yet you are he who ^stook 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 ^tmy mother’s womb you have been my God.
11 Be not ^ufar from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is ^vnone to help.
12 Many bulls encompass me;
^wstrong bulls of ^xBashan surround me;
13 they ^yopen wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
14 I am ^zpoured out like water,
and all my bones are ^aaout of joint;
my ^abheart is like ^acwax;
it is melted within my breast;
15 my strength is ^addried up like a potsherd,
and my ^aetongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.
16 For ^afdogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers ^agencircles me;
they have ^ahpierced 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 ^ajstare and gloat over me;
18 ^akthey divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.
19 But you, O Lord, ^aldo not be far off!
O you my help, ^amcome quickly to my aid!
20 Deliver my soul from the sword,
my precious life from the power of ^anthe dog!
21 Save me from ^aothe mouth of the lion!
You have rescued ^{▼▼Hebrew answered} me from the horns of ^aqthe wild oxen!
22 ^arI will tell of your name to my ^asbrothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
23 You who ^atfear the Lord, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, ^auglorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
24 For he has not despised or abhorred
the affliction of ^avthe afflicted,
and he has not ^awhidden his face from him,
but has heard, when he ^axcried to him.
25 From you comes my praise in the great ^aycongregation;
my ^azvows I will ^baperform before those who fear him.
26 ^bbThe afflicted ^{▼▼Or The meek} shall ^bdeat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
May your hearts ^belive forever!
27 All ^bfthe ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all ^bgthe families of the nations
shall worship before you.
28 For ^bhkingship belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.
29 All ^bithe prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
before him shall ^bjbow all who go down to the dust,
even the one who could not ^bkkeep himself alive.
30 Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming ^blgeneration;
31 they shall ^bmcome and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet ^bnunborn,
that he has done it.

Isaiah 50:6

6 ^boI gave my back to those who strike,
and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;
I hid not my face
from disgrace and spitting.

Isaiah 53:2-12

2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
^bpand like a root out of dry ground;
^bqhe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 ^brHe 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 ^bxwe esteemed him not.
4 ^bySurely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
^bzsmitten by God, and afflicted.
5 ^caBut he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
^cband with his wounds we are healed.
6 ^ccAll we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
^cdand the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
^ceyet he opened not his mouth;
^cflike a ^cglamb 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, ^chwho 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
^ciand with a rich man in his death,
although ^cjhe had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet ^ckit was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief; ^{▼▼Or he has made him sick}
^cmwhen his soul makes ^{▼▼Or when you make his soul} an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
^cothe 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 ^cqthe righteous one, my servant,
^crmake many to be accounted righteous,
^csand he shall bear their iniquities.
12 ^ctTherefore I will divide him a portion with the many, ^{▼▼Or with the great}
^cvand 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;
^cxyet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Luke 24:26-27

26 ^cyWas it not necessary that ^czthe Christ should suffer these things and enter into ^dahis glory?” 27 And ^dbbeginning with ^dcMoses and ^ddall the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Luke 24:44

44 Then he said to them, ^de“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, ^dfthat everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

Acts 4:12

12 And there is ^dgsalvation ^dhin no one else, for ^dithere is no other ^djname under heaven given among men ^{▼▼The Greek word anthropoi refers here to both men and women} by which we must be saved.”

Acts 17:3

3 ^dlexplaining and proving that it was necessary for ^dmthe Christ to suffer and ^dnto rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

1 Peter 1:3

Born Again to a Living Hope

3 ^doBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! ^dpAccording to his great mercy, ^dqhe has caused us to be born again to a living hope ^drthrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,