March
28, 2003
FOR
THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF MY PEOPLE
HE WAS STRICKEN
"For
He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions
of My people He was stricken" (Isaiah 53:8, NKJV).
"Who
has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord
been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender
plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or
comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we
should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, a Man
of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were,
our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem
Him.
"Surely
He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed
Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded
for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;
the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes
we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned, everyone to his own way; and the Lord has laid on
Him the iniquity of us all.
"He
was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His
mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who will declare
His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgressions of My people He was stricken. And they
made His grave with the wicked-- but with the rich at His
death, because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit
in His mouth.
"Yet
it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief.
When You 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. He shall see the labor of His soul,
and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall
justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore
I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide
the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul
unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and
He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."--
Isaiah 53
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