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Isaiah 53
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1Who has believed our message?
- To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
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2For he grew up before him as a tender plant,
- and as a root out of dry ground.
- He has no good looks or majesty.
- When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
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3He was despised,
- and rejected by men;
- a man of suffering,
- and acquainted with disease.
- He was despised as one from whom men hide their face;
- and we didn’t respect him.
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4Surely he has borne our sickness,
- and carried our suffering;
- yet we considered him plagued,
- struck by God, and afflicted.
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5But he was pierced for our transgressions.
- He was crushed for our iniquities.
- The punishment that brought our peace was on him;
- and by his wounds we are healed.
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6All we like sheep have gone astray.
- Everyone has turned to his own way;
- and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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7He was oppressed,
- yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth.
- As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
- and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute,
- so he didn’t open his mouth.
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8He was taken away by oppression and judgment;
- and as for his generation,
- who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living
- and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
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9They 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.
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10Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him.
- He has caused him to suffer.
- When you make his soul an offering for sin,
- he shall see his seed.
- He shall prolong his days,
- and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.
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11After the suffering of his soul,
- he will see the light and be satisfied.
- My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself;
- and he will bear their iniquities.
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12Therefore 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 bore the sin of many,
- and made intercession for the transgressors.
