• Psalm 22:superscription-31
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References

    • To the director upon the Hind* of the Dawn. A melody of David.

      22 My God, my God, why have you left me?*+

      [Why are you] far from saving me,+

      [From] the words of my roaring?*+

       2 O my God,* I keep calling by day, and you do not answer;+

      And by night, and there is no silence on my part.+

       3 But you are holy,+

      Inhabiting the praises of Israel.+

       4 In you our fathers trusted;+

      They trusted, and you kept providing them with escape.+

       5 To you they cried out,+ and they got away safe;+

      In you they trusted, and they did not come to shame.+

       6 But I am a worm,+ and not a man,*

      A reproach to men* and despicable to the people.+

       7 As for all those seeing me, they hold me in derision;+

      They keep opening their mouths wide,* they keep wagging [their] head:+

       8 “He committed himself* to Jehovah.+ Let Him provide him with escape!+

      Let him deliver him, since he has taken delight in him!”+

       9 For you were the One drawing me forth from the belly,+

      The One making me trust while upon the breasts of my mother.+

      10 Upon you I have been thrown from the womb;+

      From the belly of my mother you have been my God.*+

      11 Do not keep far off from me, because distress is nearby,+

      Because there is no other helper.+

      12 Many young bulls have surrounded me;+

      The powerful ones of Baʹshan themselves have got around me.+

      13 They have opened against me their mouth,+

      As a lion tearing in pieces and roaring.+

      14 Like water I have been poured out,+

      And all my bones have been separated from one another.+

      My heart has become like wax;+

      It has melted deep in my inward parts.+

      15 My power* has dried up just like a fragment of earthenware,+

      And my tongue is made to stick to my gums;*+

      And in the dust of death you are setting me.+

      16 For dogs have surrounded me;+

      The assembly of evildoers themselves have enclosed me.+

      Like a lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.*+

      17 I can count all my bones.+

      They themselves look, they gaze upon me.+

      18 They apportion my garments among themselves,+

      And upon my clothing they cast lots.+

      19 But you, O Jehovah, O do not keep far off.+

      O you my strength,+ do make haste to my assistance.+

      20 Do deliver from the sword my soul,+

      My only one* from the very paw of the dog;+

      21 Save me from the mouth of the lion,+

      And from the horns of wild bulls you must answer [and save] me.+

      22 I will declare your name+ to my brothers;+

      In the middle of the congregation* I shall praise you.+

      23 YOU fearers of Jehovah, praise him!+

      All YOU the seed of Jacob, glorify him!+

      And be frightened at him, all YOU the seed of Israel.+

      24 For he has neither despised+

      Nor loathed the affliction of the afflicted one;+

      And he has not concealed his face from him,+

      And when he cried to him for help he heard.+

      25 From you my praise will be in the large congregation;+

      My vows I shall pay in front of those fearing him.+

      26 The meek ones will eat and be satisfied;+

      Those seeking him will praise Jehovah.+

      May YOUR hearts* live forever.+

      27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn back to Jehovah.+

      And all the families of the nations will bow down before you.+

      28 For the kingship belongs to Jehovah,+

      And he is dominating the nations.+

      29 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and will bow down;+

      Before him all those going down to the dust will bend down,+

      And no one will ever preserve his own soul* alive.+

      30 A seed* itself will serve him;+

      It will be declared concerning Jehovah* to the generation.+

      31 They will come and tell of his righteousness+

      To the people that is to be born, that he* has done [this].+

  • Isaiah 53:1-12
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References

    • 53 Who has put faith in the thing heard* by us?+ And as for the arm of Jehovah,+ to whom has it been revealed?+ 2 And he will come up like a twig+ before one,* and like a root out of waterless land. No stately form does he have, nor any splendor;+ and when we shall see him, there is not the appearance so that we should desire him.+

      3 He was despised and was avoided by men,*+ a man meant for pains and for having acquaintance with sickness.+ And there was as if the concealing of one’s face from us.*+ He was despised, and we held him as of no account.+ 4 Truly our sicknesses were what he himself carried;+ and as for our pains, he bore them.+ But we ourselves accounted him as plagued,+ stricken by God*+ and afflicted.*+ 5 But he was being pierced+ for our transgression;+ he was being crushed for our errors.+ The chastisement meant for our peace was upon him,+ and because of his wounds+ there has been a healing for us.+ 6 Like sheep* we have all of us wandered about;+ it was each one to his own way that we have turned; and Jehovah himself has caused the error of us all to meet up with that one.+ 7 He was hard pressed,+ and he was letting himself be afflicted;+ yet he would not open his mouth. He was being brought just like a sheep* to the slaughtering;+ and like a ewe that before her shearers has become mute, he also would not open his mouth.+

      8 Because of restraint* and of judgment he was taken away;*+ and who will concern himself even with [the details of] his generation?*+ For he was severed+ from the land of the living ones.+ Because of the transgression+ of my people he had the stroke.*+ 9 And he* will make* his burial place even with the wicked ones,+ and with the rich class* in his death,+ despite the fact that he had done no violence+ and there was no deception in his mouth.+

      10 But Jehovah himself took delight in crushing him;+ he made him sick.+ If you will set his soul* as a guilt offering,+ he will see his offspring,+ he will prolong [his] days,+ and in his hand what is the delight+ of Jehovah will succeed.+ 11 Because of the trouble of his soul he will see,*+ he will be satisfied.+ By means of his knowledge* the righteous one, my servant,+ will bring a righteous standing to many people;+ and their errors he himself will bear.+ 12 For that reason I shall deal him a portion among the many,+ and it will be with the mighty ones that he will apportion the spoil,+ due to the fact that he poured out his soul to the very death,+ and it was with the transgressors that he was counted in;+ and he himself carried the very sin of many people,+ and for the transgressors he proceeded to interpose.+