we had learned it like a little chant/song in.. middle school?
And I just found the reference for it, searching through Bible.com :)
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Isaiah 53
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind, and man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
(I just had a vision of Jesus being whipped - that's who and what this is talking about - and every lash he got that ripped open his skin healed a gaping wound in ours. Every lash he endured healed a broken part of someone else.)
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
(The sheep before the shearer don't speak because they are stunned. It's traumatic, and they don't have the capability of making sound come out of their mouths because the pain is so numbing, they can't function.)
By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
(The son of God was cut off from heaven in the moments that he was taking our sins to hell. The Father God could not be in communion or any connection with his son when he was in the pit.)
Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore then sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
(Jesus did this for us so even though we live in sin, we can be part of heaven. He stepped in the gap for everyone who sins and called him Savior.)
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