P: He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
C: nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
P: He was despised and rejected by men,
C: a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
P: Like one from whom men hide their faces
C: he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
P: Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows,
C: yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.
P: Whom did he suffer for?
C: he was pierced for our transgressions,
P: Whom did he die for?
C: he was crushed for our iniquities;
P: the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
C: And by his wounds we are healed.
P: We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
C: each of us has turned to his own way;
P: and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
P: He was oppressed and afflicted,
C: yet he did not open his mouth;
P: he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
C: and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
P: For he bore the sin of many,
C: and made intercession for the transgressors.
Excerpted from Isaiah 53 (emphasized)
Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of International Bible Society
