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IS A IA H 5 3
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The watchmen shout and sing with joy,
for before their very eyes
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.
The LORD’s Suffering Servant
13 See, my servant will prosper;
he will be highly exalted.
14 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.
15 And he will startle* many nations.
Kings will stand speechless in his
presence.
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For they will see what they had not
been told;
they will understand what they had
not heard about.*
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• Rejection
ISAIA H 5 3 :1 -1 2
Most of us experience painful rejection
sometime in our lives. It may be the
loneliness of relational failure, the
esteem-shattering experience of job
termination, or the self-condemnation
of a guilty conscience. Since we feel
rejected by others and sometimes reject
ourselves, we often assume that God
rejects us as well. In this passage, the
prophet anticipates the rejection Jesus
would suffer on our behalf. Christ knows
not only all the rejection of human life
but also the rejection and pain of the
cross itself. We can take great hope and
comfort in knowing that Jesus understands and feels our rejection. He went to
the cross so that we could always know
the acceptance and love of God.
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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.
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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!
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 paths 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 led 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.
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.
53:8a Greek version reads He was humiliated and received no
justice. Compare Acts 8:33. 53:8b Or As for his contemporaries,
/ who cared that his life was cut short in midstream? Greek
version reads Who can speak of his descendants? / For his life
was taken from the earth. Compare Acts 8:33.