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Who has
believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been
revealed?
2 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.
3 He was
despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with
pain.
Like one from
whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low
esteem.
4 Surely he
took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we
considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was
pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the
punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all,
like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord
has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 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 its shearers is
silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By
oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was
cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was
punished.
9 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.
10 Yet it was
the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes his life an
offering for sin,
he will see
his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in
his hand.
11 After he
has suffered,
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.
12 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. Isaiah 53
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