Isaiah
53
- Who has believed our message and to whom
has the arm of the LORD been revealed ?
- He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract
us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
- He was despised and rejected by men, a man
of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their
faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
- Surely he took up our infirmities and carried
our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.
- But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was
upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
- We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each
of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity
of us all.
- He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did
not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
- By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of
the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken.
- He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any
deceit in his mouth.
- Yet it was the LORD'S will to crush him and
cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will
prosper in his hand.
- After the suffering of his soul, he will
see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant
will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
- Therefore I will give him a portion among
the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured
out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore
the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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