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          DASV: Isaiah 53    

1 Who has believed our message?
     To whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a tender plant,
          and like a root out of dry ground.
      He had no impressive form or beauty
          to attract us to him;
           there was nothing about his appearance
          that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected;
          a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
      Like one from whom people hide their face
          he was despised,
           and we thought nothing of him.

4 Surely he has borne our griefs,
     and carried our sorrows;
      yet we thought he was being punished,
     smitten by God and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,
     he was crushed for our iniquities;
      the punishment that made us whole was upon him,
     and by his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
     we have turned everyone to his own way;
      and the LORD has laid on him the sin of us all.

7 He was oppressed,
     yet when he was treated harshly he did not open his mouth;
      like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
     and like a sheep before its shearers is silent,
           so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
     But from his generation who even cared?
     He was cut off out of the land of the living;
          for the rebellion of my people he was struck down.
9 They made his grave with the wicked,
     and with the rich in his death;
      although he had done no violence,
     nor was there any deceit in his mouth.

10 Yet it was the LORD's good pleasure to bruise him
          and to cause him grief.
     When his life is made an offering for sin,
          he will see his offspring.
      He will prolong his days,
          and the pleasure of the LORD will be successful in his hand.
11 As a result of the anguish of his soul,
          he will see and be satisfied.
      By his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
          and he will bear their sins.
12 Therefore I will assign him a portion with the great,
     and he will divide the spoil with the strong,
      because he poured out himself to death,
     and was numbered with the transgressors.
      Yet he bore the sin of many,
          and made intercession for the transgressors.

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