For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!

for prophecy was not formerly brought forth by man's choice, but holy men of God spoke as they were propelled along by the Holy Spirit.

And I fell at his feet to do homage to him. But he said to me, Look out! No! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Do homage to God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. Aijeleth Shahar. A Psalm of David.] i0 par My Mighty God, My Mighty God, why have You forsaken Me, and are far from My deliverance, and from the words of My groaning?

But You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

They cried to You, and were delivered; they trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

All who see Me mock Me; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying,

For You are He who took Me out of the womb, causing Me to trust while on My mother's breasts.

Be not far from Me, for trouble is near; for there is no one to help.

They have gaped at Me with their mouths, like a tearing and roaring lion.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws; and You have brought Me into the dust of death.

I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.

But You, O Jehovah, be not far from Me; O My Strength, make haste to help Me!

Deliver Me from the lion's mouth; from the horns of the oryx. You have answered Me.

i1 [To the chief Musician. Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.] i0 par Deliver me, O God; for the waters have come in upon my soul!

I am weary from my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

O God, You know my folly, and my guilt is not hidden from You.

because I have borne reproach for Your sake, shame has covered my face.

For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen upon Me.

I also made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a byword to them.

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Jehovah, in a favorable time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercies hear me, in the truth of Your salvation.

Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

And hide not Your face from Your servant; for I am in trouble; hear me speedily.

You have known My reproach, and My shame, and My dishonor; My enemies are all before You.

They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.

i1 [A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician. Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] i0 par O Jehovah the God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You.

For my soul is full of evil, and my life draws near to Sheol.

free among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, and who have been cut off from Your hand.

Your wrath has leaned upon me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah

my eye has become faint because of affliction. Jehovah, I have called daily upon You; I have stretched out my hands unto You.

Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

But unto You I have cried out, O Jehovah, and in the morning my prayer comes before You.

I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth; I have suffered Your terrors; I am perplexed.

They have encompassed me like water all day long; they have engulfed me altogether.

Behold, My Servant shall deal with insight; He shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

Just as many were astonished at You (His appearance was disfigured more than any man, and His form more than the sons of mankind);

Who has believed Our report? And to whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed?

He is despised and rejected by men; a Man of pain, and knowing infirmity; a hiding of faces; being despised, we have esteemed Him not.

But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.

He has been oppressed, and He was afflicted; yet He opens not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before its shearers is mute, so He opens not His mouth.

And His grave was assigned with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Seventy weeks are decreed regarding your people, and regarding your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.

And after sixty two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of a coming ruler shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end shall be with a flood, and desolations are determined, and there shall be war until the end.

Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My Associate, says Jehovah of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.

Then He said to them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken.

And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the cleansing of the peoples.

I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise You.

For He has not despised nor detested the affliction of the afflicted; nor has He hidden His face from him; but when he cried out to Him, He heard.

The lowly shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek Jehovah shall praise Him; your heart shall live forever.

For the kingdom is Jehovah's; and He rules over the nations.

A seed shall serve Him; it shall be recounted of Jehovah to the coming generation.

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

The lowly shall see and be glad; and your heart shall live, you who seek God.

Let the heavens and earth praise Him, the seas, and everything that moves in them.

And the seed of His servants shall inherit it, and those who love His name shall dwell in it.

i1 [A Psalm of David.] i0 par Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I place Your enemies as Your footstool.

Your people shall be volunteers in the day of Your power; in the splendor of holiness, from the womb of the dawn, You have the dew of Your youth.

The Lord at Your right hand shall shatter kings in the day of His wrath.

For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Strong and Mighty God, The Eternal Father, The Prince of Peace.

Of the increase of His government and peace upon the throne of David there will be no end; and upon His kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on, even forever. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts will accomplish this.

And He said, It is but a little thing that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to bring back the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You for a light to the nations, to be My salvation to the ends of the earth.

He shall see the travail of His soul, and shall be fulfilled. By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore I will apportion to Him with the great, and He shall divide the spoils with the strong; because He has poured out His soul unto death; and He was reckoned among the transgressors; and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

You watched until it happened that a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were together broken to pieces, and they became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away so that they could not be found anywhere. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

And in the days of these kings, the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other people. It shall break in pieces and bring all these kingdoms to an end, and it shall stand forever.

I saw in the night visions. And behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of the heavens. And He came to the Ancient of Days. And they brought Him near before Him.

And dominion was given to Him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

And the Word of Jehovah of Hosts came unto me, saying,

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: There shall yet come people, and the inhabitants of many cities.

And Jehovah shall be King over all the earth. In that day there shall be one Jehovah, and His name one.

These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come to be;

that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.