Congrats
and blessings
on your special day, Karen
!
God bless you both
And have a blessed Palm Sunday and Holy Week, everyone
Remembering the Suffering Servant:
The Exalted Servant
13 Behold, My (
AB)servant will prosper,
He will be high and lifted up and greatly (
AC)exalted.
14 Just as many were astonished at you,
My people,
So His (
AD)appearance was marred more than any man
And His form more than the sons of men.
15 Thus He will (
AE)sprinkle many nations,
Kings will (
AF)shut their mouths on account of Him;
For (
AG)what had not been told them they will see,
And what they had not heard they will understand.
Isaiah 53
The Suffering Servant
1 (
AH)Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 For He grew up before Him like a (
AI)tender shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has (
AJ)no
stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
3 He was (
AK)despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and (
AL)acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was (
AM)despised, and we did not (
AN)esteem Him.
4 Surely our griefs He Himself (
AO)bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of (
AP)God, and afflicted.
5 But He was pierced through for (
AQ)our transgressions,
He was crushed for (
AR)our iniquities;
The (
AS)chastening for our well-being
fell upon Him,
And by (
AT)His scourging we are healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not (
AU)open His mouth;
(
AV)Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off out of the land of the living
(
AW)For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke
was due?
9 His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a (
AX)rich man in His death,
(
AY)Because He had (
AZ)done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. 10 But the LORD was pleased
To (
BA)crush Him, (
BB)putting
Him to grief;
If He would render Himself
as a guilt (
BC)offering,
He will see (
BD)
His offspring,
He will prolong
His days,
And the good (
BE)pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will (
BF)see
it and be satisfied;
By His (
BG)knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will (
BH)bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore, I will allot Him a (
BI)portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out (
BJ)Himself to death,
And was (
BK)numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself (
BL)bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.