Old Testament
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PSALMS
40:7-8 Then I said, “Here I am;
in the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do your will,
O my God; your law is within my heart.”
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ISAIAH 40 – 55 [“Second Isaiah”]
52:13 – 53:12
13 See, my servant shall prosper; he shall
be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. 14Just
as there were many who were astonished at him—so marred was his
appearance, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of mortals—
15so he shall startle
many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which
had not been told them they shall see, and that which they had not heard
they shall contemplate.
Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD
been revealed? 2For he
grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his
appearance that we should desire him. 3He
was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted
with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their faces he was
despised, and we held him of no account.
4 Surely he has borne our infirmities and
carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God,
and afflicted. 5But he
was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him
was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed. 6All
we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the
LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7He
was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a
lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its
shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 8By
a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his
future? For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the
transgression of my people. 9They
made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich, although he had
done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the LORD
to crush him with pain. When you make his life an offering for sin, he
shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days; through him the will
of the LORD shall prosper. 11Out
of his anguish he shall see light; he shall find satisfaction through his
knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and
he shall bear their iniquities. 12Therefore
I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall 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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July 12, 2003
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