Psa 22, Isa 53:1-9, Dan 9:24-26, Zec 12:10, 13:7 | 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 53:1-9

1 ^boWho has believed what he has heard from us? ^{▼▼Or Who has believed what we have heard?}
And to whom has ^bqthe arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
^brand like a root out of dry ground;
^bshe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 ^btHe 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 ^bzwe esteemed him not.
4 ^caSurely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
^cbsmitten by God, and afflicted.
5 ^ccBut he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
^cdand with his wounds we are healed.
6 ^ceAll we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
^cfand the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
^cgyet he opened not his mouth;
^chlike a ^cilamb 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, ^cjwho 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
^ckand with a rich man in his death,
although ^clhe had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.

Daniel 9:24-26

The Seventy Weeks

24 ^cm“Seventy weeks ^{▼▼Or sevens; also twice in verse 25 and once in verse 26} are decreed about your people and ^coyour holy city, to finish ^cpthe transgression, to put an end to sin, ^cqand to atone for iniquity, ^crto bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and ^csto anoint a most holy place. ^{▼▼Or thing, or one} 25 ^cuKnow therefore and understand that ^cvfrom the going out of the word to restore and ^cwbuild Jerusalem to the coming of an ^cxanointed one, a ^cyprince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again ^{▼▼Or there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again} with squares and moat, ^dabut in a troubled time. 26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ^dbbe cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come ^dcshall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ^ddIts ^{▼▼Or His} end shall come with a flood, ^dfand to the end there shall be war. ^dgDesolations are decreed.

Zechariah 12:10

Him Whom They Have Pierced

10 “And ^dhI will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and ^dipleas for mercy, so that, ^djwhen they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, ^dkthey shall mourn for him, ^dlas one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Zechariah 13:7

The Shepherd Struck

7 “Awake, O sword, against ^dmmy shepherd,
against the man who stands next to me,”

declares the Lord of hosts.
^dn“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
I will turn my hand against the little ones.