Isa 53
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Who has believed our message? and to whom has the arm of YHWH been revealed?
2
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he
has no form nor beauty; 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 has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted.
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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 YHWH
has 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 YHWH to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his
soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and
the pleasure of YHWH 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 to death, and was numbered with the
transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.