Isaiah 53
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Who hath believed our report? Rom.
10.16 and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Joh. 12.38
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For he shall grow up before him as a
tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor
comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty
that we should desire him.
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He is despised and rejected of men; a man
of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him
not.
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Surely he hath borne our griefs, and
carried our sorrows: Mt. 8.17 yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted.
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But he was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes
we are healed. 1 Pet. 2.24
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All we like sheep have gone astray; 1 Pet.
2.25 we have turned every one to his own way; and the
LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all.
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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the
slaughter, Rev. 5.6 and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not
his mouth.
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He was taken from prison and from
judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off
out of the land of the living: Acts 8.32, 33 for
the transgression of my people was he stricken.
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And he made his grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence,
neither was any deceit in his mouth. 1 Pet. 2.22
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Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:
when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure
of the LORD shall prosper in his
hand.
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He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
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Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the
strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was
numbered with the transgressors: Mk. 15.28 · Lk. 22.37 and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors.
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