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53.4 :Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried;
 * Whereas we did esteem him stricken,
 * Smitten of God, and afflicted.
 * 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.
 * All we like sheep did go astray,
 * We turned every one to his own way;
 * And the hath made to light on him
 * The iniquity of us all.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.'


 * Yet it pleased the 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 might prosper by his hand:
 * 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.
 * 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.


 * Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear,
 * Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail;
 * For more are the children of the desolate
 * Than the children of the married wife, saith the.
 * Enlarge the place of thy tent,
 * And let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations, spare not;
 * Lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.
 * For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left;
 * And thy seed shall possess the nations,
 * And make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
 * Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed.
 * Neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame;
 * For thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth,
 * And the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.
 * For thy Maker is thy husband,
 * The of hosts is His name;