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Isaiah 53
1WHO HAS believed (trusted in, relied upon, and clung to) our message
[of that which was revealed to us]? And to whom has the arm of the
Lord been disclosed?(1)
2For [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender plant,
and like a root out of dry ground; He has no form or comeliness
[royal, kingly pomp], that we should look at Him, and no beauty
that we should desire Him.
3He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows
and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One
from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate
His worth or have any esteem for Him.
4Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses)
and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly]
considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with
leprosy].(2)
5But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our
guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace
and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded]
Him we are healed and made whole.
6All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to
his own way; and the Lord has made to light upon Him the guilt and
iniquity of us all.(3)
7He was oppressed, [yet when] He was afflicted, He was submissive
and opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His
mouth.
8By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation,
who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of
the living [stricken to His death] for the transgression of my [Isaiah's]
people, to whom the stroke was due?
9And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked, and with a rich
man in His death, although He had done no violence, neither was
any deceit in His mouth.(4)
10Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him
to grief and made Him sick. When You and He make His life an offering
for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall
see His [spiritual] offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the
will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11He shall see [the fruit] of the travail of His soul and be satisfied;
by His knowledge of Himself [which He possesses and imparts to others]
shall My [uncompromisingly] righteous One, My Servant, justify many
and make many righteous (upright and in right standing with God),
for He shall bear their iniquities and their guilt [with the consequences,
says the Lord].
12Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great [kings and
rulers], and He shall divide the spoil with the mighty, because
He poured out His life unto death, and [He let Himself] be regarded
as a criminal and be numbered with the transgressors; yet He bore
[and took away] the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors
(the rebellious).
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