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- Who hath believed our message?
and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?
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- For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness;
and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
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- He was despised, and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised;
and we esteemed him not.
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- Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows;
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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- But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities;
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed.
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- All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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- He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth;
as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
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- By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke [was due]?
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- And they made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death;
although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
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- Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him;
he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
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- He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many;
and he shall bear their iniquities.
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- Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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