One Year Chronological Bible Sampler - Flipbook - Page 145
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they see the LORD returning to Jerusalem.*
Let the ruins of Jerusalem break into joyful song,
for the LORD has comforted his people.
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
The LORD has demonstrated his holy power
before the eyes of all the nations.
All the ends of the earth will see
the victory of our God.
Get out! Get out and leave your captivity,
where everything you touch is unclean.
Get out of there and purify yourselves,
you who carry home the sacred objects of the LORD.
You will not leave in a hurry,
running for your lives.
For the LORD will go ahead of you;
yes, the God of Israel will protect you from behind.
JULY 26
The LORD’s Suffering Servant / Isaiah 52:13–53:12
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See, my servant will prosper;
he will be highly exalted.
But many were amazed when they saw him.*
His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human,
and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.
And he will startle* many nations.
Kings will stand speechless in his presence.
For they will see what they had not been told;
they will understand what they had not heard about.*
Who has believed our message?
To whom has the LORD revealed his powerful arm?
My servant grew up in the LORD’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
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 weaknesses 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!
52:8 Hebrew to Zion. 52:14 As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads you. 52:15a Or cleanse. 52:15b Greek version
reads Those who have never been told about him will see, / and those who have never heard of him will understand. Compare
Rom 15:21. 53:4 Or Yet it was our sicknesses he carried; / it was our diseases.
