w[Ps. 68:30 (Heb.)]
al[See ver. 11 above]
Psa 69
 
cz[See ver. 19 above]

Psalms 22

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

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

1 aMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so bfar from saving me, from the words of my cgroaning?
2O 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.
4In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
5To 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.
7All 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.
10On you was I cast from my birth,
and from tmy mother’s womb you have been my God.
11Be 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;
13they 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;
15my 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

17I 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!
20Deliver my soul from the sword,
my precious life from the power of anthe dog!
21Save 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:
23You who atfear the Lord, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, auglorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
24For 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.
28For 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.
30Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming blgeneration;
31they shall bmcome and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet bnunborn,
that he has done it.

Psalms 69

Save Me, O God

To the choirmaster: according to boLilies. Of David.

1 Save me, O God!
For bpthe waters have come up to my neck.
Or  waters threaten my life

2I sink in deep brmire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood bssweeps over me.
3 btI am weary with my crying out;
bumy throat is parched.
bvMy eyes grow dim
with bwwaiting for my God.
4 bxMore in number than the hairs of my head
are bythose who hate me bzwithout cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
cathose who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
must I now restore?
5O God, you know my folly;
the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
6 Let not those who hope in you cbbe 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.
7For it is ccfor your sake that I have borne reproach,
that dishonor has covered my face.
8I have become cda stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons.
9 For cezeal for your house has consumed me,
and cfthe reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10When I wept and humbled
Hebrew lacks  and humbled
my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.
11When I made chsackcloth my clothing,
I became cia byword to them.
12I am the talk of those who cjsit in the gate,
and the drunkards make cksongs about me.
13 But as for me, my clprayer is to you, O Lord.
At cman acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
14Deliver me
from sinking in cnthe mire;
colet me be delivered from my enemies
and from cpthe deep waters.
15Let not the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or cqthe pit close crits mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O Lord, for your cssteadfast love is good;
according to your abundant ctmercy, cuturn to me.
17 cvHide not your face from your servant,
cwfor I am in distress; cxmake haste to answer me.
18Draw near to my soul, redeem me;
ransom me because of my enemies!
19 You know my cyreproach,
and my shame and my dishonor;
my foes are all known to you.
20 czReproaches have broken my heart,
so that I am in dadespair.
I dblooked for dcpity, but there was none,
and for ddcomforters, but I found none.
21They gave me depoison for food,
and for my thirst they gave me dfsour wine to drink.
22 dgLet their own dhtable before them become a snare;
diand 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 dkLet their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
dland make their loins tremble continually.
24Pour out your indignation upon them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.
25 dmMay their camp be a desolation;
let no one dwell in their tents.
26For they dnpersecute him whom doyou have struck down,
and they recount the pain of dpthose you have wounded.
27 dqAdd to them punishment upon punishment;
may they have no acquittal from you.
Hebrew  may they not come into your righteousness

28Let them be dsblotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be dtenrolled among the righteous.
29 But I am afflicted and in pain;
let your salvation, O God, duset me on high!
30 I will dvpraise the name of God with a song;
I will dwmagnify him with dxthanksgiving.
31This will dyplease the Lord more than an ox
or a bull dzwith horns and hoofs.
32When eathe humble see it they will be glad;
you who seek God, eblet your hearts revive.
33For the Lord hears the needy
and ecdoes not despise his own people who are prisoners.
34 Let edheaven and earth praise him,
the seas and everything that moves in them.
35For eeGod will save Zion
and build up the cities of Judah,
and people shall dwell there and possess it;
36 efthe offspring of his servants shall inherit it,
and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

Isaiah 53

1 egWho has believed what he has heard from us?
Or  Who has believed what we have heard?

And to whom has eithe arm of the Lord been revealed?
2For he grew up before him like a young plant,
ejand like a root out of dry ground;
ekhe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 elHe 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 erwe esteemed him not.
4 esSurely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
etsmitten by God, and afflicted.
5 euBut he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
evand with his wounds we are healed.
6 ewAll we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
exand the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
eyyet he opened not his mouth;
ezlike a falamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, fbwho considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9And they made his grave with the wicked
fcand with a rich man in his death,
although fdhe had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet feit was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
Or  he has made him sick

fgwhen his soul makes
Or  when you make his soul
an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
fithe will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11Out 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 fkthe righteous one, my servant,
flmake many to be accounted righteous,
fmand he shall bear their iniquities.
12 fnTherefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
Or  with the great

fpand 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;
fryet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Daniel 9:24-26

The Seventy Weeks

24 fsSeventy weeks
Or sevens; also twice in verse 25 and once in verse 26
are decreed about your people and fuyour holy city, to finish fvthe transgression, to put an end to sin, fwand to atone for iniquity, fxto bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and fyto anoint a most holy place.
Or thing, or one
25 gaKnow therefore and understand that gbfrom the going out of the word to restore and gcbuild Jerusalem to the coming of an gdanointed one, a geprince, 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, ggbut in a troubled time.
26And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ghbe cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come gishall destroy the city and the sanctuary. gjIts
Or His
end shall come with a flood, gland to the end there shall be war. gmDesolations are decreed.

Zechariah 13:7

The Shepherd Struck

7 Awake, O sword, against gnmy shepherd,
against the man who stands next to me,”

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