Psa 22:1-21, 69:1-21, Psa 88, Isa 52:13-14, 53:1-10, Dan 9:24-26 | 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!

Psalms 69:1-21

Save Me, O God

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

1 Save me, O God!
For ^asthe waters have come up to my neck. ^{▼▼Or waters threaten my life}
2 I sink in deep ^aumire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood ^avsweeps over me.
3 ^awI am weary with my crying out;
^axmy throat is parched.
^ayMy eyes grow dim
with ^azwaiting for my God.
4 ^baMore in number than the hairs of my head
are ^bbthose who hate me ^bcwithout cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
^bdthose 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 ^bebe 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 ^bffor your sake that I have borne reproach,
that dishonor has covered my face.
8 I have become ^bga stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons.
9 For ^bhzeal for your house has consumed me,
and ^bithe 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 ^bksackcloth my clothing,
I became ^bla byword to them.
12 I am the talk of those who ^bmsit in the gate,
and the drunkards make ^bnsongs about me.
13 But as for me, my ^boprayer is to you, O Lord.
At ^bpan acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
14 Deliver me
from sinking in ^bqthe mire;
^brlet me be delivered from my enemies
and from ^bsthe deep waters.
15 Let not the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or ^btthe pit close ^buits mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O Lord, for your ^bvsteadfast love is good;
according to your abundant ^bwmercy, ^bxturn to me.
17 ^byHide not your face from your servant,
^bzfor I am in distress; ^camake haste to answer me.
18 Draw near to my soul, redeem me;
ransom me because of my enemies!
19 You know my ^cbreproach,
and my shame and my dishonor;
my foes are all known to you.
20 ^ccReproaches have broken my heart,
so that I am in ^cddespair.
I ^celooked for ^cfpity, but there was none,
and for ^cgcomforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me ^chpoison for food,
and for my thirst they gave me ^cisour wine to drink.

Psalms 88

I Cry Out Day and Night Before You

A Song. A Psalm of ^cjthe Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to ^ckMahalath Leannoth. A Maskil ^{▼▼Probably musical or liturgical terms} of ^cmHeman the Ezrahite.

1 O Lord, ^cnGod of my salvation,
I ^cocry out day and night before you.
2 Let my prayer come before you;
^cpincline your ear to my cry!
3 For my soul is full of troubles,
and ^cqmy life draws near to ^crSheol.
4 I am counted among those who ^csgo down to the pit;
I am a man who has no strength,
5 like one set loose among the dead,
like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom ^ctyou remember no more,
for they are ^cucut off from your hand.
6 You have put me in ^cvthe depths of the pit,
in the ^cwregions dark and ^cxdeep.
7 Your wrath ^cylies heavy upon me,
and you overwhelm me with ^czall your waves. Selah
8 You have caused ^damy companions to shun me;
you have made me ^dba horror ^{▼▼Or an abomination} to them.
I am ^ddshut in so that I cannot escape;
9 ^demy eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O Lord;
I ^dfspread out my hands to you.
10 Do you work wonders for the dead?
^dgDo the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Are your ^dhwonders known in ^dithe darkness,
or your righteousness in the land of ^djforgetfulness?
13 But I, O Lord, cry ^dkto you;
^dlin the morning my prayer comes before you.
14 O Lord, why ^dmdo you cast my soul away?
Why ^dndo you hide your face from me?
15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain}
16 Your wrath has swept over me;
your ^dpdreadful assaults destroy me.
17 They ^dqsurround me like a flood ^drall day long;
they ^dsclose in on me together.
18 You have caused ^dtmy beloved and my friend to shun me;
my companions have become darkness. ^{▼▼Or darkness has become my only companion}

Isaiah 52:13-14

He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions

13 Behold, ^dvmy servant shall act wisely; ^{▼▼Or shall prosper}
he shall be high and lifted up,
and shall be exalted.
14 As many were astonished at you—
^dxhis appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—

Isaiah 53:1-10

1 ^dyWho has believed what he has heard from us? ^{▼▼Or Who has believed what we have heard?}
And to whom has ^eathe arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
^eband like a root out of dry ground;
^eche had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 ^edHe 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 ^ejwe esteemed him not.
4 ^ekSurely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
^elsmitten by God, and afflicted.
5 ^emBut he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
^enand with his wounds we are healed.
6 ^eoAll we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
^epand the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
^eqyet he opened not his mouth;
^erlike a ^eslamb 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, ^etwho 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
^euand with a rich man in his death,
although ^evhe had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet ^ewit was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief; ^{▼▼Or he has made him sick}
^eywhen his soul makes ^{▼▼Or when you make his soul} an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
^fathe will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

Daniel 9:24-26

The Seventy Weeks

24 ^fb“Seventy weeks ^{▼▼Or sevens; also twice in verse 25 and once in verse 26} are decreed about your people and ^fdyour holy city, to finish ^fethe transgression, to put an end to sin, ^ffand to atone for iniquity, ^fgto bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and ^fhto anoint a most holy place. ^{▼▼Or thing, or one} 25 ^fjKnow therefore and understand that ^fkfrom the going out of the word to restore and ^flbuild Jerusalem to the coming of an ^fmanointed one, a ^fnprince, 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, ^fpbut in a troubled time. 26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ^fqbe cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come ^frshall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ^fsIts ^{▼▼Or His} end shall come with a flood, ^fuand to the end there shall be war. ^fvDesolations are decreed.

Psalms 22:1-21

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

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