1. Why do the nations rage,and the peoples plot a vain thing?

2. The kings of the earth take a stand,and the rulers take counsel together,against The LORD, and against his Anointed, saying,

3. "Let's break their bonds apart,and cast their cords from us."

The stone which the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone.head of the corner

9. He said, "Go, and tell this people,'You hear indeed,but don't understand;and you see indeed,but don't perceive.'

10. Make the heart of this people fat.Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;lest they see with their eyes,and hear with their ears,and understand with their heart,and turn again, and be healed."

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

But I said, "I have labored in vain.I have spent my strength in vain for nothing;yet surely the justice due to me is with The LORD,and my reward with my God."

1. The LORD says, "Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away?or to which of my creditors have I sold you?Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

2. Why, when I came, was there no one?when I called, why was there no one to answer?Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem?or have I no power to deliver?Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea.I make the rivers a wilderness:their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

3. I clothe the heavens with blackness,and I make sackcloth their covering."

4. The Lord the LORD has given me the tongue of those who are taught,that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary.He wakens morning by morning,he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

5. The Lord the LORD has opened my ear,and I was not rebellious.I have not turned back.

6. I gave my back to those who beat me,and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.

7. For the Lord the LORD will help me.Therefore I have not been confounded.Therefore I have set my face like a flint,and I know that I shall not be disappointed.

8. He who justifies me is near.Who will bring charges against me?Let us stand up together.Who is my adversary?Let him come near to me.

9. Behold, the Lord the LORD will help me!Who is he who will condemn me?Behold, they will all grow old like a garment.The moths will eat them up.

10. Who among you fears The LORD,and obeys the voice of his servant?He who walks in darkness,and has no light,let him trust in The LORD's name,and rely on his God.

11. Behold, all you who kindle a fire,who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves;walk in the flame of your fire,and among the torches that you have kindled.You will have this from my hand:You will lie down in sorrow.

1. Who has believed our message?To whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

2. 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.

3. He was despised,and rejected by men;a man of suffering,and acquainted with disease.He was despised as one from whom men hide their face;and we didn't respect him.

4. Surely he has borne our sickness,and carried our suffering;yet we considered him plagued,struck by God, and afflicted.