Isaiah 53:1-8

            ▪ Isaiah 53:1-8  1  Who has believed \[confidently trusted in, relied on, and adhered to\] our message \[of salvation\]? And to whom \[if not us\] has the arm and infinite power of the Lord been revealed?
                • 2  For He \[the Servant of God\] grew up before Him like a tender shoot (plant), And like a root out of dry ground; He has no stately form or majestic splendor That we would look at Him, Nor \[handsome\] appearance that we would \[a\]be attracted to Him.
                • 3  He was despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and pain and acquainted with grief; And like One from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or esteem Him.
                • 4  But \[in fact\] He has borne our griefs, And He has carried our sorrows and pains; Yet we \[ignorantly\] assumed that He was stricken, Struck down by God and degraded and humiliated \[by Him\].
                • 5  But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was crushed for our wickedness \[our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing\]; The punishment \[required\] for our well-being fell on Him, And by His stripes (wounds) we are healed.
                • 6  All of us like sheep have gone astray, We have turned, each one, to his own way; But the Lord has caused the wickedness of us all \[our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing\] To fall on Him \[instead of us\].
                • 7  He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth \[to complain or defend Himself\]; Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before her shearers, So He did not open His mouth.
                • 8  \[b\]After oppression and judgment He was taken away; And \[c\]as for His generation \[His contemporaries\], who \[among them\] concerned himself with the fact That He was cut off from the land of the living \[by His death\] For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke \[of death\] was due?