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Isaiah 53
1 Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah
been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out
of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we see
him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted
with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised;
and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet
we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for
our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and
with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to
his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his
mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that
before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
8 By 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 for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke
was due?
9 And they made his 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.
10 Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:
when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see
his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah
shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:
by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many;
and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he
shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his
soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he
bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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