(w/ portions of PSALM 22 & Isaiah 53)
Voice 1:
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.
Voice 2:
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.
To you they cried and were rescued;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
All Sing:
What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul?
What wondrous love is this, O my soul?
Voice 1:
But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;
“He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him;
let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
All Sing:
When I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down,
When I was sinking down, sinking down . . .
Voice 2:
He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
Voice 1:
But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
All Sing:
To God and to the Lamb, I will sing, I will sing.
To God and to the Lamb, I will sing.
Voice 2:
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Voices 1 & 2 together:
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
Voice 1:
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
Voice 2:
they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that . . .
Voices 1 & 2 together:
he has done it.
All Sing:
And when from death I’m free, I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on!
And when from death I’m free, I’ll sing on!