Psalm 69

¹⁴Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

¹⁵Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

²When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

⁵⁴The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

¹⁵Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.

¹⁶But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.

¹⁵Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

³For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

⁴At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

²He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

²⁵The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.

⁶So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

⁶Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.

⁶You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

⁷Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah

²²All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’

⁶I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

⁸²My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

¹²³My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.

¹⁴I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

³²Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

²¹May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.

¹⁹Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

²⁵But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’

³They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

⁴In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

¹¹Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.

¹²They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.

⁴Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.

⁵But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

²¹God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

⁹O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.

¹⁷For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

¹²Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

³You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

²¹would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

⁵My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

³Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who engage in treachery without cause will be disgraced.

²⁶May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

¹⁹“What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.

²⁰Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.

²³Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”

¹⁸Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

⁷Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.

⁶I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.

²²Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

¹⁵You understand, O Lord; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.

²Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

³He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

¹¹And even Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked Him. Dressing Him in a fine robe, they sent Him back to Pilate.

¹¹Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends—they flee when they see me on the street.

⁵For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.

¹¹He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

³⁵For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

³⁶A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

¹¹My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.

⁵Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.

⁶For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

³For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”

¹⁴In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.

¹⁵So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

¹³⁹My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.

¹⁵When they arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

¹⁶And He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.

⁴¹All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

¹⁰“I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”

³³For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

³⁴The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

²⁴My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

²⁵I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

⁸All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.

⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

¹³Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

⁶He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

⁷then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

⁹I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.

³⁷You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

⁸Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

¹²On that day the Lord God of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

²⁶The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

²⁷In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

¹⁵But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

¹⁶Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

⁴¹In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,

⁴²“He saved others, but He cannot save Himself. He is the King of Israel! Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him.

²And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding payment of taxes to Caesar, and proclaiming Himself to be Christ, a King.”

⁶²The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and Pharisees assembled before Pilate.

⁶³“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

⁸A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

⁹And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

²For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!

⁸This is what the Lord says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,

¹⁶But I call to God, and the Lord saves me.

¹⁷Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.

¹⁵When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

⁶Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

¹⁰I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.

¹¹O Lord, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.

⁷Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

²¹But You, O God, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.

⁶So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

⁷Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.

²I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

⁵⁵I called on Your name, O Lord, out of the depths of the Pit.

²My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

¹⁵Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.

¹⁶But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.

²⁴But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep Him in its grip.

¹But now, this is what the Lord says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

²When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

²saying: “In my distress I called to the Lord, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

³For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

¹⁰For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

⁴I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

⁵I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

²¹But You, O God, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.

¹⁶Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

³Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.

¹⁹He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

⁴⁵And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

¹¹But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.

⁹Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.

²Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.

⁴⁶About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

⁹Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord; I flee to You for refuge.

¹For the choirmaster. Of David. To bring remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Hurry, O Lord, to help me!

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

⁹He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.

¹⁹But You, O Lord, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “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, so far from my words of groaning?

¹⁵But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

¹Why, O Lord, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?

²⁷if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the Lord who did all this.’”

²Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

³He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

²³When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

⁹O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.

²The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the Lord and against His Anointed One:

³“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”

⁴⁹“I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.

⁵I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.

²“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

⁴Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.

⁵⁰Then everyone deserted Him and fled.

⁵⁶But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

²⁷Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.

³⁴they offered Him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, He refused to drink it.

³⁶The soldiers also mocked Him and came up to offer Him sour wine.

²³There they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh, but He did not take it.

⁴⁸One of them quickly ran and brought a sponge. He filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed, and held it up for Jesus to drink.

³⁶And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine. He put it on a reed and held it up for Jesus to drink, saying, “Leave Him alone. Let us see if Elijah comes to take Him down.”

²⁸After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

²⁹A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.

³While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

⁸as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”

⁹And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.

⁸and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.

¹⁴And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.

¹⁵Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

³²For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

²If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the Lord of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.

⁶his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

¹⁰May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”

⁹And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’

¹⁰Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

¹⁴But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.

⁶Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?

³Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.

⁴My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.

⁶Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

¹⁰The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.

¹Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”

²²For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

¹⁵If, however, you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

¹⁶You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

¹⁵Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,

²⁰“For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, ‘May another take his position.’

³⁸Look, your house is left to you desolate.

¹²But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

¹³And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,

¹¹Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

³⁵Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

⁸And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

⁴Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.

¹⁵but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’

²⁷Along with Jesus, they crucified two robbers, one on His right and one on His left.

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¹⁰Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.

⁷Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the Lord of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.

⁹But a prophet of the Lord named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the Lord, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

¹⁰Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the Lord.

⁵Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

²⁸Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

¹⁰Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of prophecy in this book, because the time is near.

¹¹Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”

¹¹For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,

¹²in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.

¹⁴Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

³²Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

³³The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.

³Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have contended at my side for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

²⁰Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

⁹My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of My people or be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord God.

⁸And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.

¹²And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.

¹³The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.

¹⁴“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.

¹⁵When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

¹⁷But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

⁵But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay.

²²For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

⁹Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,

¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

⁷The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.

³Magnify the Lord with me; let us exalt His name together.

²⁸You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.

²⁹Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; He inclined to me and heard my cry.

²He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

¹⁴Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

²¹I will give You thanks, for You have answered me, and You have become my salvation.

¹⁵Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

⁵you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

¹⁹Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

²⁰always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²³He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”

²Bring your confessions and return to the Lord. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

²²So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

²⁶The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the Lord will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

⁶Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

⁷Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

²My soul boasts in the Lord; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.

¹The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

²to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

⁹He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.

¹⁸and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

¹⁹But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,

⁶God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

¹¹As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

¹²Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

¹⁰Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

⁷He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free,

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

¹³Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

⁶Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

¹¹Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.

¹²You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

¹Hallelujah! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise Him in the highest places.

²Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His heavenly hosts.

²²I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

²³Sing for joy, O heavens, for the Lord has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.

²⁶who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’

¹³I am bringing My righteousness near; it is not far away, and My salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion and adorn Israel with My splendor.

¹⁸In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.

¹⁷But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.

¹¹Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.

¹²March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,

¹⁶For the Lord will rebuild Zion; He has appeared in His glory.

²⁸The children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.”

¹²Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

³⁹This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

²⁹The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

²³Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

⁹Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed.