Ashes to Alleluia: Daily Scripture for Lent is a brief daily podcast offering the simple gift of God’s Word during the season of Lent. Each episode begins with a quiet invitation to pause and take one deep breath, followed by the reading of Scripture appointed for the day, and concludes with a short blessing. There is no commentary- only space to listen, receive, as we walk together from repentance toward resurrection through these forty days.
Psalm 22
22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
22:2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer;
and by night but find no rest.
22:3 Yet you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.
22:4 In you our ancestors trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
22:5 To you they cried and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
22:6 But I am a worm and not human,
scorned by others and despised by the people.
22:7 All who see me mock me;
they sneer at me; they shake their heads;
22:8 “Commit your cause to the LORD; let him deliver—
let him rescue the one in whom he delights!”
22:9 Yet it was you who took me from the womb;
you kept me safe on my mother’s breast.
22:10 On you I was cast from my birth,
and since my mother bore me you have been my God.
22:11 Do not be far from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is no one to help.
22:12 Many bulls encircle me;
strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
22:13 they open wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
22:14 I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax;
it is melted within my breast;
22:15 my mouth is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.
22:16 For dogs are all around me;
a company of evildoers encircles me;
they bound my hands and feet.
22:17 I can count all my bones.
They stare and gloat over me;
22:18 they divide my clothes among themselves,
and for my clothing they cast lots.
22:19 But you, O LORD, do not be far away!
O my help, come quickly to my aid!
22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword,
my life from the power of the dog!
22:21 Save me from the mouth of the lion!
From the horns of the wild oxen you have rescued me.
22:22 I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
22:23 You who fear the LORD, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him;
stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
22:24 For he did not despise or abhor
the affliction of the afflicted;
he did not hide his face from me
but heard when If cried to him.
22:25 From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will pay before those who fear him.
22:26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the LORD.
May your hearts live forever!*
22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the LORD,
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before him.,
22:28 For dominion belongs to the LORD,
and he rules over the nations.
22:29 To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
and I shall live for him.,
22:30 Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord
22:31 and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,
saying that he has done it.
