V. 1. WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT? Who puts faith in that which he hears from us, the messengers of the Lord? AND TO WHOM IS THE ARM OF THE LORD REVEALED? The evangelist of the Old Testament, in an ineffably sad strain, deplores the natural lack of interest in the great central message of salvation... [ Continue Reading ]
For He, the Servant of Jehovah, SHALL GROW UP BEFORE HIM, the Lord, AS A TENDER PLANT AND AS A ROOT OUT OF A DRY GROUND, a shoot springing up from beneath a dead stump. HE HATH NO FORM, no attractiveness, NOR COMELINESS; AND WHEN WE SHALL SEE HIM, THERE IS NO BEAUTY THAT WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM. In the... [ Continue Reading ]
He is despised and rejected of men, forsaken by them all, A MAN OF SORROWS AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF, fully acquainted with sicknesses and the misery of this earthly life; AND WE HID, AS IT WERE, OUR FACES FROM HIM. HE WAS DESPISED, AND WE ESTEEMED HIM NOT, ignoring Him, passing Him by. He stood all... [ Continue Reading ]
Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, the sufferings and pains which we should have endured; YET WE DID ESTEEM HIM STRICKEN, SMITTEN OF GOD, AND AFFLICTED, bowed down with suffering.... [ Continue Reading ]
But He was wounded for our transgressions, for the crimes by which we had become guilty in the sight of God, HE WAS BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES, for the debts which we had incurred; literally, "by His stripes healing to us. ... [ Continue Reading ]
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and, in the mean time, while we were yet sinners and godless, THE LORD HATH LAID ON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL. While mankind, as a whole, was indifferent to Him, rejected and despised Him, He was wonderfully active in our... [ Continue Reading ]
He was oppressed, sorely ill-treated, AND HE WAS AFFLICTED, He bowed Himself down, offering a willing back to the burden placed upon it; YET HE OPENED NOT HIS MOUTH; HE IS BROUGHT AS A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER, AND AS A SHEEP BEFORE HER SHEARERS IS DUMB, SO HE OPENETH NOT HIS MOUTH, not one cry of prot... [ Continue Reading ]
He was taken from prison and from judgment, through force and judicial sentence, AND WHO SHALL DECLARE HIS GENERATION? FOR HE WAS CUT OFF OUT OF THE LAND OF THE LIVING, that is, who of the people of His time deplored the fact that He was torn away out of the land of the living? the answer being: Pra... [ Continue Reading ]
And He made His grave with the wicked and with the rich in His death, rather, "but with the rich He was in His death"; BECAUSE HE HAD DONE NO VIOLENCE, NEITHER WAS ANY DECEIT IN HIS MOUTH. Christ is the true sacrificial Lamb brought to the slaughter, a sheep dumb before her shearers. But He attained... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief, laid sickness and sorrow upon Him. WHEN THOU SHALT MAKE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN, literally, "when His soul shall have been offered as a sacrifice of trespass," HE SHALL SEE HIS SEED, HE SHALL PROLONG HIS DAYS, AND THE PLEASURE OF... [ Continue Reading ]
He shall see the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied, feel satisfaction and true refreshment; BY HIS KNOWLEDGE SHALL MY RIGHTEOUS SERVANT JUSTIFY MANY, FOR HE SHALL BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, apportion to Him the many, AND HE SHALL DIVIDE THE SPOIL WITH THE STRONG, the mighty ones becoming subject to Him, BECAUSE HE HATH POURED OUT HIS SOUL UNTO DEATH, AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH THE TRANSGRESSORS, AND HE BARE THE SIN OF MANY, AND MADE I... [ Continue Reading ]