Psalms 22:17

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”

Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

and they sat and watched him there.

He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, “Don’t weep. She isn’t dead, but sleeping.”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”

“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.

Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”

You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’

I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter.

“Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah.

Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!”

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.