the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our message? and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor majesty; and when we see him, there is no appearance that we should desire him.3 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 did not esteem him.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed.6 All of us like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and who considered his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living; because of the transgression of my people he was stricken to death.9 And they made his grave with the wicked, and his tomb with the rich; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him that was made sick. If his soul makes an offering for sin, [then] he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.11 He shall see the light of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous slave justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for their sins.
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