Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For He grew up
before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of parched ground;
He has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon Him, nor appearance
that we should be attracted to Him. He was despised and forsaken
of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and like one from whom
men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely
our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves
esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was
pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities;
the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we
are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has
turned to his own way; but the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to
fall on Him. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He did not
open His mouth; like a lamb that is led to slaughter, and like a sheep
that is silent before its shearers, so He did not open His mouth.
By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation,
who 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? His grave
was assigned with wicked men, yet He was with a rich man in His death,
because He had done no
violence, nor was there any
deceit in His mouth. But the LORD was pleased to crush Him, putting
Him to grief; if He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see
His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD
will
prosper in His hand.
As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied;
by His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many,
as He will bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will allot Him a portion
with the great, and He will divide the booty with the strong; because He
poured
out Himself to death, and
was numbered with the transgressors; yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
and interceded for the transgressors.
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