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Isaiah 52.13 to 53.12

See, my servant shall understand, and he shall be exalted and glorify exceedingly!
Just as many shall be astonished at you
– so shall your appearance be without glory from men,
and your glory be absent from the men –
so shall many nations be astonished at him, and kings shall shut their mouth,
because those who were not informed about him shall see
and those who did not hear shall understand.   
Lord, who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
He grew up before him like a child, like a root in a thirsty land;
He has no form or glory, and we saw him,
And he had no form or beauty.
But his form was without honour, failing beyond all men,
A man being a calamity and knowing how to bear sickness;
Because his face is turned away,
he was dishonoured and not esteemed.
This one bears our sins and suffers pain for us,
and we accounted him to be in trouble and calamity and ill-treatment.
But he was wounded because of our acts of lawlessness
And has been weakened because of our sins:
upon him was the discipline of our peace; by his bruise we were healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; a man has strayed in his own way,
and the Lord gave him over to our sins. 
And he, because he has been ill-treated, does not open his mouth; like a sheep, he was led to the slaughter,
and as lamb is silent before the one shearing it, so he does not open his mouth.
In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will describe his generation? 
Because his life is being taken from the earth, he was led to death on account of the acts of lawlessness of my people
And I will give the wicked for his burial and the rich for his death, 
Because he committed no lawlessness,
nor was deceit found in his mouth.
And the Lord desires to cleanse him from his blow.
If you offer for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived offspring.
And the Lord wishes to take away from the pain of his soul,
to show him light and fill him with understanding,
to justify a righteous one which is well subject to many, and he himself shall bear their sins.
Therefore he shall inherit many,
and he shall divide the spoils of the strong,
because his soul was given over to death, and he was reckoned among the lawless
and he bore the sins of many, and because of their sins he was given over.
 

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