MIGHTY ARM ISAIAH 53

MIGHTY ARM ISAIAH 53
[Verse 1:]Who has believed our message?To whom has the Lord revealed His mighty arm?He grew up like a tender shoot,Like a root out of dry ground.
[Verse 2:]He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him,Nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him.He was despised and rejected by men,A man of sorrows, familiar with suffering.
[Verse 3:]Like one from whom people hide their faces,He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.Surely He took up our pain and bore our suffering,Yet we considered Him punished by God, stricken by Him, and afflicted.
[Verse 4:]But He was pierced for our transgressions,He was crushed for our iniquities;The punishment that brought us peace was on Him,And by His wounds we are healed.
[Verse 5:]We all, like sheep, have gone astray,Each of us has turned to our own way;And the Lord has laid on HimThe iniquity of us all.
[Verse 6:]He was oppressed and afflicted,Yet He did not open His mouth;He was led like a lamb to the slaughter,And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
[Verse 7:]By oppression and judgment, He was taken away.Yet who of His generation protested?For He was cut off from the land of the living;For the transgression of my people, He was punished.
[Verse 8:]He was assigned a grave with the wicked,And with the rich in His death,Though He had done no violence,Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
[Verse 9:]Yet it was the Lord's will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer,And though the Lord makes His life an offering for sin,He will see His offspring and prolong His days,And the will of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
[Verse 10:]After He has suffered, He will see the light of life and be satisfied;By His knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many,And He will bear their iniquities.
[Verse 11:]Therefore I will give Him a portion among the great,And He will divide the spoils with the strong,Because He poured out His life unto death,And was numbered with the transgressors.
[Verse 12:]For He bore the sin of many,And made intercession for the transgressors.