Isaiah:53-56

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* Who has believed our report ? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed ? * For He comes up before Him as a tender plant , and as a root out of a dry ground ; He has no form nor majesty that we should see Him , nor an appearance that we should desire Him . * [He is ] despised and rejected of men ; a Man of sorrows , and acquainted with grief ; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him , He being despised , and we esteemed Him not . * Surely He has borne our griefs , and carried our sorrows ; yet we esteemed Him stricken , smitten of God , and afflicted . * But He [was ] wounded for our transgressions ; [He was ] bruised for our iniquities ; the chastisement of our peace [was ] on Him ; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed . * All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned , each one 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 is brought as a lamb to the slaughter ; and as a sheep before its shearers is dumb , so He opened not His mouth . * 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 ; for the transgression of My people He [was ] stricken . * And He put His grave with the wicked , and with a rich one in His death ; although He had done no violence , nor [was any ] deceit in His mouth . * Yet it pleased the LORD to crush Him ; to grieve Him ; [that ] He should put forth His soul as a guilt-offering . He shall see [His ] seed , He shall prolong [His ] days , and the will of the LORD shall prosper in His hand . * He shall see [the fruit ] of the travail of His soul . He shall be fully satisfied . By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify for many ; and He shall bear their iniquities . * Therefore I will divide to Him with the great , and He shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because He has poured out His soul to death ; and He was counted among the transgressors ; and He bore the sin of many , and made intercession for transgressors . * Rejoice , O unfruitful one [that ] never bore ; break out a song and shout , [you ] who never travailed . For more [are ] the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married woman , says the LORD . * Make the place of your tent larger , and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings . Do not spare , lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes ; * for you shall break out [on ] the right hand and on the left . And your seed shall inherit the nations , and people will inhabit ruined cities . * Do not fear ; for you shall not be ashamed , nor shall you blush ; for you shall not be put to shame ; for you shall forget the shame of your youth , and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more . * For your Maker [is ] your husband ; Jehovah of hosts is His name ; and your Redeemer [is ] the Holy One of Israel ; the God of the whole earth shall He be called . * For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit , and a wife of youth , when you were rejected , says your God . * For a little moment I have left you ; but with great mercies I will gather you . * In a little wrath I hid My face from you [for ] a moment ; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you , says the LORD your Redeemer . * For this [is as ] the waters of Noah to Me ; [for as ] I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth , so I have sworn from being angry with you and from rebuking you . * For the mountains shall depart , and the hills be removed ; but My kindness shall not depart from you , nor shall the covenant of My peace be removed , says the LORD who has mercy on you . * Afflicted one , storm-tossed [and ] not comforted , behold , I will lay your stones among antimony , and lay your foundations with sapphires . * And I will make your battlements of ruby , and your gates of carbuncles , and all your borders of pleasant stones . * And all your sons [shall be ] taught of the LORD ; and great [shall be ] the peace of your sons . * In righteousness you shall be established ; you shall be far from oppression ; for you shall not fear ; and from terror , for it shall not come near you . * Behold , they shall surely gather together , not by Me ; whoever shall gather against you , he shall fall by you . * Behold , I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire , and who brings out a tool for his work ; and I have created the waster to destroy . * No weapon that is formed against you shall be blessed ; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment , you shall condemn . This [is ] the inheritance of the servants of the LORD , and their righteousness [is ] from Me , says the LORD . * Ho , everyone who thirsts , come to the waters ; and he who [has ] no money , come , buy and eat . Yea , come , buy wine and milk without money and without price . * Why do you weigh silver for [what is ] not bread ? and your labor for [what ] never satisfies ? Listen carefully to Me , and eat [what is ] good , and let your soul delight itself in fatness . * Bow down your ear , and come to Me ; hear , and your soul shall live ; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you , even the sure mercies of David . * Behold , I have given Him [for ] a witness to the people , a Leader and Commander of peoples . * Behold , You shall call a nation that You do not know ; a nation [that ] did not know You shall run to You because of Jehovah Your God , and for the Holy One of Israel ; for He has glorified You . * Seek the LORD while He may be found ; call on Him while He is near . * Let the wicked forsake his way , and the unrighteous man his thoughts ; and let him return to the LORD , and He will have mercy on him ; and to our God , for He will abundantly pardon . * For My thoughts [are ] not your thoughts , nor your ways My ways , says the LORD . * For [as ] the heavens are higher than the earth , so are My ways higher than your ways , and My thoughts than your thoughts . * For as the rain comes down , and the snow from the heavens , and does not return there , but waters the earth , and makes it bring out and bud , and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater ; * so shall My Word be , which goes out of My mouth ; it shall not return to Me void , but it shall accomplish what I please , and it shall certainly do what I sent it to do . * For you shall go out with joy , and be led out with peace ; the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing , and all the trees of the field shall clap [their ] hands . * Instead of the thorn , the fir tree shall come up ; and instead of the brier , the myrtle tree shall come up ; and it shall be to the LORD for a name , for an everlasting sign [which ] shall not be cut off . * So says the LORD , Keep judgment and do justice ; for My salvation [is ] near to come , and My righteousness to be revealed . * Blessed [is ] the man who does this , and the son of man who lays hold on it ; keeping the sabbath , from defiling it ; and keeping his hand from doing any evil . * And do not let the son of the stranger , who has joined himself to the LORD , speak , saying , the LORD has utterly separated me from His people . And do not let the eunuch say , Behold , I [am ] a dry tree . * For so says the LORD to the eunuchs who keep My sabbath , and choose things that please Me , and take hold of My covenant ; * even to them will I give within My house and within My walls a hand and a name better than of sons and of daughters ; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off . * Also the sons of the stranger , who join themselves to the LORD to serve Him , and to love the name of the LORD , to be His servants , everyone who keeps from defiling the sabbath , and takes hold of My covenant ; * even them I will bring to My holy mountain , and make them joyful in My house of prayer . Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices [shall be ] accepted on My altar ; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples , * says the Lord Jehovah who gathers the outcasts of Israel , Yet I will gather beside him his gathered ones . * All beasts of the field , come to devour , all beasts in the forest . * His watchmen [are ] blind ; they are all ignorant ; they [are ] all dumb dogs who cannot bark , dreaming , lying down , loving to slumber . * Yea , [they are ] greedy dogs which can never have enough ; and they [are ] shepherds [who ] cannot understand . They all look to their own way , every one for his gain , to his own end . * [They say ], come , Let us take wine , and let us gulp strong drink ; and tomorrow shall be like today , and much more abundant . * The righteous one perishes , and no one lays [it ] to heart , and merciful men [are ] taken away ; no one cares that the righteous is taken away from the face of evil .

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