“Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he
shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in
his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be
satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for
he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion
with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because
he hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bare the sins of many, and made intercession for
the transgressors.”
He will not draw back before the vilest insults. “I gave my back to the
smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my
face from shame and spitting.”
All will be against Him in the supreme moment. “They have spoken against
me with a lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of
hatred; and fought against me without a cause. For my love they are my
adversaries.”
The son cries to the Father:
“Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: mine
adversaries are all before thee.
“Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked
for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I
found none.
“They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me
vinegar to drink.”
They pierce Him with nails and divide His clothes among themselves.
“For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed
me: they pierced my hands and my feet
“... they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and
cast lots upon my vesture.”
Too late they will understand what they have done and will repent.
“... and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall
mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in
bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first born.”
“Yea, all kings shall bow down before him: all nations shall serve him.
“For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him
that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save
the souls of the needy.”
“The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee;
and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles
of thy feet.”
“For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the
people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen
upon thee.
“And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness
of thy rising.
“Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves
together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy
daughters shall be nursed at thy side.”
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