Isaiah 53

We read this in church this evening. It gave me goosebumps and brought tears to my eyes. We have an awesome God! 

There was nothing beautiful or

 majestic about his appearance,

nothing to attract us to him.

He was despised and rejected-

a man of sorrows, acquainted with 

deepest grief.

We turned our backs on him and

looked the other way.

He was despised, and we did not 

care.

Yet it was our weakness he carried;

it was our sorrows that weighed 

him down.

And we thought his troubles were 

a punishment from God,

a punishment for his own sins!

But he was pierced for our rebellion,

crushed for our sins.

He was beaten so we could be whole.

He was whipped so we could be

healed.

All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.

We have left God's path to follow

our own.

Yet the Lord laid on him

the sins of us all.

He was oppressed and treated harshly,

yet he never said a word.

He was lead like a lamb to the 

slaughter.

And as a sheep is silent before the

shearers, 

he did not open his mouth.

Unjustly condemned,

he was led away.

No one cared that he died without

descendants,

that his life was cut short in

midstream.

But he was struck down 

for the rebellion of my people.

He had done no wrong

and had never deceived anyone.

But he was buried like a criminal;

he was put in a rich man's grave.

But it was the Lord's good plan to 

crush him

and cause him grief.

Yet when his life is made an offering

for sin,

he will have many descendants.

He will enjoy a long life,

and the Lord's good plan will 

prosper in his hands.

When he sees all that is accomplished

by his anguish,

he will be satisfied.

And because of his experience,

my righteousness servant will make it

possible

for many to be counted righteous,

for HE will BEAR ALL their SINS.

I will give him the honors of a

victorious solider,

because he exposed himself to 

death.

He was counted among the rebels.

HE BORE the sins of many and 

interceded for the rebels.

ISAIAH 53