Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?  The report of Isaiah was mind-boggling and so many of his day did not believe his prophecy. Unfortunately, the people who lived during its fulfillment did not believe the report either. Many do not believe His report today even though it is only by believing the report that any person is saved. |
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. |
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. |
Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, struck of the Lord, and afflicted.  |
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every 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 her shearers is dumb, so he opens 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 was he stricken. |
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. |
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