Isaiah 53: 1 – 6. (Tanakh Translation)
“Who can believe what we have heard?
Upon whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he has grown, by His favour, like a tree crown,
Like a tree trunk out of arid ground.
He had no form or beauty, that we should look at him:
No charm, that we should find him pleasing.
He was despised, shunned by men,
A man of suffering, familiar with disease.
As one who hid his face from us,
He was despised, we held him of no account.
Yet it was our sickness that he was bearing,
Our suffering that he endured.
We accounted him plagued,
Smitten and afflicted by God;
But he was wounded because of our sins,
Crushed because of our iniquities.
He bore the chastisement that made us whole,
And by his bruises we were healed.
We all went astray like sheep,
Each going his own way;
And the Lord visited upon him
The guilt of all of us.”
When I meditate on this passage, my spirit aches with the realization of what Jesus the Messiah bore for me. How can we deny the sacrificial ministry of our Lord, by still holding in our lives those things that he bore, to free us?
“Who can believe what we have heard?
Upon whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he has grown, by His favour, like a tree crown,
Like a tree trunk out of arid ground.
He had no form or beauty, that we should look at him:
No charm, that we should find him pleasing.
He was despised, shunned by men,
A man of suffering, familiar with disease.
As one who hid his face from us,
He was despised, we held him of no account.
Yet it was our sickness that he was bearing,
Our suffering that he endured.
We accounted him plagued,
Smitten and afflicted by God;
But he was wounded because of our sins,
Crushed because of our iniquities.
He bore the chastisement that made us whole,
And by his bruises we were healed.
We all went astray like sheep,
Each going his own way;
And the Lord visited upon him
The guilt of all of us.”
When I meditate on this passage, my spirit aches with the realization of what Jesus the Messiah bore for me. How can we deny the sacrificial ministry of our Lord, by still holding in our lives those things that he bore, to free us?
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