For His People, Good..
(Isaiah 53)

[Apr 14, 1995]

Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of
the LORD been revealed?  For he grew up before him like a young
plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or
comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we
should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide
their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he
has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him
stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.  But he was wounded for
our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him
was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we
are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the
iniquity of us all.  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet
he opened not his  mouth; like a lamb that is led to the
slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so
he opened not 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, stricken for the transgression
of my people? 
 
And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in
his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no
deceit in his mouth.  Yet it was the will of the LORD to bruise
him; he has put him to grief; when he makes himself an offering
for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days;
the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand; he shall see the
fruit of the travail of his soul and be  satisfied; by his
knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be
accounted righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities. 
Therefore I will 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. 
                         - Isaiah 53, RSV 

 
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