Isaiah chapter 53 Who has believed
what he has heard from us? 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 majesty 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 crushed for our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement
that brought us peace, 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 silent, 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 crush him. He has put him to grief. When
his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring. He shall prolong his days. The will of the Lord shall prosper
in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul
he shall see 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 many, 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
makes intercession for the transgressors.