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OCTOBER 1
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
OCTOBER 1 He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is
silent,
Isaiah 53:1–54:17
So He opened not His mouth.
Who has believed our report? 8 He was taken from prison and from
53 And to whom has the arm of judgment,
the LORD been revealed? And who will declare His generation?
For He shall grow up before Him as a
2 For He was cut off from the land of the
tender plant, living;
And as a root out of dry ground. For the transgressions of My people
He has no form or comeliness; He was stricken.
And when we see Him, 9 And they made His grave with the
There is no beauty that we should wicked—
desire Him. But with the rich at His death,
He is despised and rejected by men,
3 Because He had done no violence,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
grief. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him;
And we hid, as it were, our faces from He has put Him to grief.
Him; When You make His soul an offering
He was despised, and we did not for sin,
esteem Him. He shall see His seed, He shall prolong
4 His days,
Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows; And the pleasure of the LORD shall
Yet we esteemed Him stricken, prosper in His hand.
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our
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transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities; 53:10 it pleased the LORD. Though the
The chastisement for our peace was Servant did not deserve to die,it was the Lord’s
upon Him, will for Him to do so (Matt. 26:39; Luke 22:42;
And by His stripes we are healed. John 12:27; Acts 2:23). an offering for sin.
6 Fulfilled by the Servant as the Lamb of God (v.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own 7; John 1:29). Christ is the Christian’s Passover
way; (1 Cor. 5:7). This conclusively eliminates the
And the LORD has laid on Him the error that Christ’s atonement provides present-
iniquity of us all. day healing for those who pray in faith. His
death was an atonement for sin, not sickness.
see His seed,…prolong His days. To see His
seed, the Servant must rise from the dead. He
will do this and live to reign forever.
53:6 All we…every one,…us all. Every person
has sinned (Rom. 3:9,23), but the Servant has
sufficiently shouldered the consequences of 11 He shall see the labor of His soul,
sin and the righteous wrath deserved by sin- and be satisfied.
ners (1 Tim. 2:5,6; 4:10; 1 John 2:2).The manner By His knowledge My righteous
in which God laid our iniquity on Him was that Servant shall justify many,
God treated Him as if He had committed every
sin ever committed by every person who For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion
would ever believe, though He was perfectly
innocent of any sin. God did so to Him, so that with the great,
wrath being spent and justice satisfied, God And He shall divide the spoil with the
could then give to the account of sinners who strong,
believe, the righteousness of Christ, treating Because He poured out His soul unto
them as if they had done only the righteous death,
acts of Christ.In both cases,this is substitution. And He was numbered with the
transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,

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