Isaiah
chapter 53:
The Elephant in the Room
that many Jews and non-Jews don’t know is
there.
What
would happen if they did?
Written
700 years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Israel, Isaiah wrote these
words (copied from the Jewish Publication Society translation of the Hebrew
into English):
“Who
would have believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been
revealed? 2 For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry
ground; he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty
that we should delight in him. 3 He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of
pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face:
he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4“Surely our diseases he did bear,
and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted.”
5
“But he was wounded because of our transgressions, he was crushed because of
our iniquities: the chastisement of our welfare was upon him, and with his
stripes we were healed.”
6
“All we like sheep did go astray, we turned every one to his own way; and the Lord
hath made to light on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, though he
humbled himself and opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the
slaughter, and as a sheep that before her shearers is dumb; yea, he opened not
his mouth.”
8
“By oppression and judgment he was taken away, and with his generation who did
reason? For he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression
of my people to whom the stroke was due.”
9
“And they made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich his tomb; although
he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.' 10 Yet it
pleased the Lord to crush him by disease; to see if his soul would offer itself
in restitution, that he might see his seed, prolong his days, and that the
purpose of the Lord might prosper by his hand:”
11
“Of the travail of his soul he shall see to the full, even My servant, who by
his knowledge did justify the Righteous One to the many, and their iniquities
he did bear. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion among the great, and he
shall divide the spoil with the mighty; because he bared his soul unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors.”
--------Yes, what would happen if both Jews and Gentiles knew?
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