I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel."

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I have cried desperately for help, but still it does not come.

But you are enthroned as the Holy One, the one whom Israel praises.

They called to you and escaped from danger; they trusted you and were not disappointed.

All who see me make fun of me; they stick out their tongues and shake their heads.

It was you who brought me safely through birth, and when I was a baby, you kept me safe.

Do not stay away from me! Trouble is near, and there is no one to help.

They open their mouths like lions, roaring and tearing at me.

My throat is as dry as dust, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have left me for dead in the dust.

All my bones can be seen. My enemies look at me and stare.

O LORD, don't stay away from me! Come quickly to my rescue!

Rescue me from these lions; I am helpless before these wild bulls.

"Praise him, you servants of the LORD! Honor him, you descendants of Jacob! Worship him, you people of Israel!

In the full assembly I will praise you for what you have done; in the presence of those who worship you I will offer the sacrifices I promised.

All nations will remember the LORD. From every part of the world they will turn to him; all races will worship him.

All proud people will bow down to him; all mortals will bow down before him.

People not yet born will be told: "The Lord saved his people."

The people reply, "Who would have believed what we now report? Who could have seen the LORD's hand in this?

We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him--- we ignored him as if he were nothing.

But because of our sins he was wounded, beaten because of the evil we did. We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows he received.

"He was treated harshly, but endured it humbly; he never said a word. Like a lamb about to be slaughtered, like a sheep about to be sheared, he never said a word.

He was placed in a grave with those who are evil, he was buried with the rich, even though he had never committed a crime or ever told a lie."

After a life of suffering, he will again have joy; he will know that he did not suffer in vain. My devoted servant, with whom I am pleased, will bear the punishment of many and for his sake I will forgive them.

"Seven times seventy years is the length of time God has set for freeing your people and your holy city from sin and evil. Sin will be forgiven and eternal justice established, so that the vision and the prophecy will come true, and the holy Temple will be rededicated.

And at the end of that time God's chosen leader will be killed unjustly. The city and the Temple will be destroyed by the invading army of a powerful ruler. The end will come like a flood, bringing the war and destruction which God has prepared.

"I will fill the descendants of David and the other people of Jerusalem with the spirit of mercy and the spirit of prayer. They will look at the one whom they stabbed to death, and they will mourn for him like those who mourn for an only child. They will mourn bitterly, like those who have lost their first-born son.

The LORD Almighty says, "Wake up, sword, and attack the shepherd who works for me! Kill him, and the sheep will be scattered. I will attack my people

Jesus took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, "Listen! We are going to Jerusalem where everything the prophets wrote about the Son of Man will come true.

They will whip him and kill him, but three days later he will rise to life."

Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and then to enter his glory?"

and said to them, "This is what is written: the Messiah must suffer and must rise from death three days later,

I passed on to you what I received, which is of the greatest importance: that Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures;

Why do you who are here find it impossible to believe that God raises the dead?

In accordance with his own plan God had already decided that Jesus would be handed over to you; and you killed him by letting sinful men crucify him.

For David said about him, 'I saw the Lord before me at all times; he is near me, and I will not be troubled.

because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead; you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.

"My friends, I must speak to you plainly about our famous ancestor King David. He died and was buried, and his grave is here with us to this very day.

David saw what God was going to do in the future, and so he spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah when he said, 'He was not abandoned in the world of the dead; his body did not rot in the grave.'

And this is what God said about raising him from death, never to rot away in the grave: 'I will give you the sacred and sure blessings that I promised to David.'

I am always aware of the LORD's presence; he is near, and nothing can shake me.

because you protect me from the power of death. I have served you faithfully, and you will not abandon me to the world of the dead.

The LORD says, "It was my will that he should suffer; his death was a sacrifice to bring forgiveness. And so he will see his descendants; he will live a long life, and through him my purpose will succeed.

And so I will give him a place of honor, a place among the great and powerful. He willingly gave his life and shared the fate of evil men. He took the place of many sinners and prayed that they might be forgiven."

They left the graves, and after Jesus rose from death, they went into the Holy City, where many people saw them.

No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do."

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die;

But the truth is that Christ has been raised from death, as the guarantee that those who sleep in death will also be raised.

For just as all people die because of their union with Adam, in the same way all will be raised to life because of their union with Christ.

He is the head of his body, the church; he is the source of the body's life. He is the first-born Son, who was raised from death, in order that he alone might have the first place in all things.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to be raised from death and who is also the ruler of the kings of the world. He loves us, and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins

You are to open their eyes and turn them from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan to God, so that through their faith in me they will have their sins forgiven and receive their place among God's chosen people.'

A light to reveal your will to the Gentiles and bring glory to your people Israel."